This paper considers the transnational collection, interpretation, and circulation of archaeological material acquired in North Solomon Islands (now the Autonomous Region of Bougainville) by Hobart born Methodist missionary the Reverend A. H. Voyce (1899–1984). In 1935, he gave an archaeological assemblage to Father P. O’Reilly, a French Marist priest, in the region to fulfil an ethnographic mission for the Musee d’Ethnographie du Trocadero/ Musee de l’Homme in Paris, France. Understanding the context of their encounter through international missionary networks, and the subsequent curation and interpretation of the artefacts collected by Voyce in multiple countries and according to different academic traditions, requires an approach that transcends traditional, nationally framed histories. Voyce and O’Reilly were from different socio-cultural and religious backgrounds, deeply inscribed in different national histories. Yet, they were nodes in an extensive network linking early twentieth-century ‘missionary-ethnographers’, Pacific interlocutors, and international scholars that could sometimes transcend language and denominational barriers. Both Voyce and O’Reilly shared a particular interest in ancient artefacts that has positioned them as important contributors to the early twentieth-century formulation of Pacific archaeology; their collections and the ideas they supported quietly becoming significant legacies for the discipline. We cross-analyze the sets of data we have been gathering independently on Voyce and O’Reilly to examine this collection’s story as an exemplary case-study in the transnational history of science.

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牧师 Voyce 和 Père O

本文考虑了霍巴特出生的卫理公会传教士 AH Voyce 牧师（1899-1984 年）在北所罗门群岛（现为布干维尔自治区）获得的考古材料的跨国收集、解释和流通。1935 年，他为该地区的法国 Marist 牧师 P. O'Reilly 神父提供了考古组合，以完成法国巴黎特罗卡德罗民族志博物馆/人类博物馆的民族志使命。通过国际传教网络了解他们相遇的背景，以及随后 Voyce 在多个国家根据不同学术传统收集的文物的策展和解释，需要一种超越传统、国家框架历史的方法。Voyce 和 O'Reilly 来自不同的社会文化和宗教背景，深深地铭刻在不同的民族历史中。然而，他们是连接 20 世纪早期“传教士民族志学者”、太平洋对话者和有时可以超越语言和教派障碍的国际学者的广泛网络中的节点。Voyce 和 O'Reilly 都对古代文物特别感兴趣，这使它们成为 20 世纪早期太平洋考古学表述的重要贡献者。他们的收藏和他们支持的想法悄悄地成为该学科的重要遗产。我们交叉分析了我们在 Voyce 和 O'Reilly 上独立收集的数据集，以检查该系列的故事，作为跨国科学史中的典型案例研究。