Person
Massola, Aldo Giuseppe (1910 - 1975)
- Born
- 9 September 1910
Rome, Italy - Died
- 6 July 1975
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Anthropologist and Museum curator
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.
Details
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. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/massola-aldo-giuseppe-11083. 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
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