Handwritten and typed anthropological field notes, reports, correspondence between Kelly and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, and draft papers relating to various aspects of Kelly’s field work in Queensland Aboriginal communities. Titles of some of the papers include 'Christianity and the native', 'Religion', 'Fight among the Kaingbul', and 'Notes on the retention of ritual and customs among missionised natives'. There is one 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'.

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

? Brown [first name not provided]
Mr Perkins
Bob Eubbard / Bob Hubbard

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of funeral rites and burial ceremonies. It also 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.

Partial biography of Rita Huggins: 'Involvement in OPAL’, BA Honours Thesis, Flinders university, 1989 (1 page of unknown manuscript inserted between pages 34 and 35)

The Murri School (also known as the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School) was first established in 1986. This file contains cards and letters, mostly from children to ‘Super Gran’ or Muriel Langford and a Certificate of appreciation to Muriel Langford.

This file includes; various itineraries; leaflets and handouts regarding Expo 88; Kath Walker election material; two flyers and a ribbon with 'ALP Kath Walker for Greenslopes'; Application by Kath Walker and material for Honorary Warden with the Archaeology Branch Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement; 1 students notebook with handwritten notes; events and programmes; promotional material on the programme 'Roots'; handwritten shopping lists; 1980 calendar; newspaper cutting from The Telegraph from 21 Nov 1945 of returning prisoners of war, one of whom is Private E. Ruska of Dunwich; a photograph holder (photograph missing) from Lennons Hotel; and handwritten notes by an undetermined author.