Carbon copy typescript of Die Gliederung der australischen Sprachen : geographische, bibliographische, linguistische Grundzuge der Erforschung der australischen Sprachen by Wilhelm Schmidt publication in 1919 ; translated from the German by D. Clark for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies; 1972. Item contains cut and paste inserts from original publication. Schmidt wrote about the classification of Australian languages; linguistic evidence - phonology, pronouns; comparative vocabularies; distribution of languages and bibliography.

Anthropological field notes and reports, mostly handwritten. Also contains a folded map titled 'Map showing the distribution of the Aboriginal tribes of Australia by Norman B. Tindale 1940'.

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