NCIG Documentary History Collection

The NCIG Documentary History Collection consists of field notes, correspondence, photographs, manuscripts, serology results, tribal indexes, kinship systems and other documents that relate to biospecimens collected. The biospecimens were collected from the 1960s until the early 1990s from approximately 7000 people from Indigenous communities across northern and western Australia. The collection arose out of an ambitious world-wide project, the International Biological Programme – Human Adaptability section which aimed to enhance our understanding of humans living in the major environmental zones of earth.
However changing political, social and ethical settings emerging in Australia resulted in the Australian National University (ANU) placing a moratorium in the late 1990s on research using the collection and the collection was placed in long-term storage. The documentary material has arisen out of the research of Robert Kirk and Susan Sarjeantson. Documentary material continues to be added under the directorship of Simon Easteal.

NCIG文献历史馆藏（NCIG Documentary History Collection）包含与采集的生物样本相关的野外工作记录、往来信函、照片、手稿、血清学检测结果、部落索引、亲属制度及其他各类文献。这批生物样本采集于20世纪60年代至90年代初，采集对象为澳大利亚北部与西部原住民社群的约7000名民众。该馆藏源自一项极具雄心的全球性项目——国际生物计划（International Biological Programme）人类适应性研究分支，其核心目标是深化人类对生活在地球主要环境区域中的人群的认知。
然而，澳大利亚国内不断演变的政治、社会与伦理环境，促使澳大利亚国立大学（Australian National University, ANU）于20世纪90年代末暂停所有基于该馆藏的研究工作，馆藏亦被转入长期封存状态。
该文献馆藏源自罗伯特·柯克（Robert Kirk）与苏珊·萨詹特森（Susan Sarjeantson）的研究成果。
目前，在西蒙·伊斯蒂尔（Simon Easteal）的主持下，该文献馆藏仍在持续补充新的资料。