Massola, Aldo Giuseppe (1910 - 1975)

Summary

Aldo Massola was Curator of Anthropology at the National Museum of Victoria during which time he worked to organise the collections, identifying artefacts, developing more systematic records and compiling bibliographies. He conducted successful field excursions searching for rock paintings about which he published articles in the Victorian Naturalist. In visiting Aboriginal communities he assembled significant oral, written and pictorial material and won the respect of those he visited. The Anthropological Society of Victoria was revived under Massola's presidency.

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Chronology

1954 - 1956

Career position - Temporary Assistant (Anthropology), National Museum of Victoria

1956 - 1965

Career position - Curator of Anthropology, National Museum of Victoria

1959 - 1961

Career position - President, Anthropological Society of Victoria

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Published resources

Book Sections

• Mulvaney, D. J., 'Massola, Aldo Giuseppe (1910-1975), Museum Curator [and Numismatist]' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), p. 327. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150386b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Baines, M. A., 'Aldo Massola, Italo-Australian Anthropologist of the Aborigines', The Victorian naturalist, 93 (3) (1976), 91. Details
• Massola, A., 'In memoriam Leonhard Adam', Oceania, 31 (3) (1961), 161-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4461.1961.tb00233.x. Details
• Massola, A., 'Punta Arenas and Sir Baldwin Spencer's Grave', The Victorian naturalist, 89 (2) (1972), 54-56. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4713900. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/35700888. Details
• 'Massola, Aldo Giuseppe (19100909-19750706)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1465086. Details