Notebook, partly paginated by hand, containing handwritten notes from field work in Aboriginal communities in Kempsey and other parts of New South Wales, as well as a typed report, six leaves, partly paginated, titled 'Settlement at Wallaga Lake, Tilba Tilba NSW', accompanied by a typed letter to Adolphus Peter Elkin, ca. 1937. Also includes a typed and unsigned letter addressed 'Dear Mr Lazybones'.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file:

James Davis (father of Herb)
Jack Mahrny [? spelling]
Clarnie Avery [? spelling of first name]
George Birge [? spelling]
Walter Birge [? spelling]
Edgar Bolloch
Jack Dolt
Pacey Lighlon [? spelling]
Tom Lighlon [? spelling]
Tom Campbell
Astley Campbell
Dick Campbell
Roy Wilson (son of Mr G Wilson)
Norman Whitton
Clara Buchanon
Mr Thorpe [full name not provided]
Mr Greenwell [full name not provided]
Miss Mack [full name not provided]
Mr G Wilson
Hettlefield [full name not provided]
? Hockins [full name not provided]
? Waters [full name not provided]
? Taylor [full name not provided]
? Carberry [full name not provided]
? Moffitt [full name not provided]
? Benelong [full name not provided]
? Archibald [full name not provided]

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Typed correspondence and reports relating to Caroline Kelly’s anthropological survey. Includes a paper titled 'Report of anthropological survey undertaken at Burnt Bridge August/September 1937', as well as an untitled paper, in which the first line reads 'This paper forms portion of a study of the impact of European culture upon the Aborigines of New South Wales'. Much of the correspondence is between Kelly and Adolphus Peter Elkin. Also includes six black-and-white photographs, 7 x 9 cm, showing a tin dwelling from different angles, as well as the 'manager's residence'; three of the photographs feature a woman and a child, both of whom are possibly Aboriginal, standing on the verandah of the tin dwelling.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file:
Herbert Davis
Campbell [full name not provided]

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.