Handwritten anthropological field notes and reports. Includes what appears to be a portion of a typed paper, possibly titled 'Kuam', paginated from 3 to 6.

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Anthropological field notes, reports and correspondence, both handwritten and typed. Contains a typed paper, three leaves, titled 'Notes on the retention of ritual and customs among missionised natives'.

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Anthropological field notes and reports, mostly handwritten. Some typed pages are paginated but are incomplete and out of order, and carry handwritten emendations.

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

Conlon Family
Mrs Conlon and sons Percy Conlon, Arthur Conlon, George Conlon, Bill Conlon and daughter Winnie Conlon

Coumbo Family
Annie Coumbo, Venus Coumbo, Jack Coumbo, Jean Coumbo and Bertie Coumbo

Mrs Hopkins (sister of Jack)
Bob Eubbard / Hubbard [spelling uncertain]
Cerra Anderson
Elsie Goodchap (Wife of Wily)
Harry Willis
Jack Anderson
Maudie Bligh (wife of Martin B) and children; Mavis Bligh, Fred Bligh and Percy Bligh
Tommy Conlon
Tommy Norley
Topsy Norley

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Anthropological field notes and reports, mostly handwritten.

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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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Journal articles authored by Caroline Kelly, AP Elkin, SF Nadel, AR Radcliffe Brown and others, as well as a trifold brochure from the Housing Commission of New South Wales containing an interview with Margaret Mead.

Some of the articles include:
'Tribes on Cherburg [Cherbourg] Settlement, Queensland' by Caroline Kelly, reprinted from Oceania, 1935;
'Former numbers and distribution of the Australian Aborigines' by AR Radcliffe brown, reprinted from The official yearbook of the Commonwealth of Australia, 1930;
'Some aspects of culture content in eastern Australia' by Caroline Kelly, reprinted from Oceania, 1945 [2 copies];
'The reaction of white groups in country towns of New South Wales to Aborigines' by Caroline Kelly, reprinted from Social horizons, 1943;
'The typological approach to culture : chance and rationality in culture' by SF Nadel, reprinted from Character and personality, 1937;
'Native languages and the field worker in Australia' by AP Elkin, reprinted from The American anthropologist, 1941; Social science research in Australia: history and functions of the Committee on Research in the Social Sciences, Australian National Research Council, 1945;
'AIE bulletin no. 3' bulletin letter by Margaret Mead, Lorengau, Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, 1953.

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Anthropological field notes and reports, mostly handwritten.

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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]

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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

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Anthropological field notes and reports, mostly handwritten. Contains two typed papers; the first, four pages, is titled 'Role of the individual in the settlement'; the second, inconsistently paginated by hand, 33 leaves, is titled 'The Queensland reserve'.

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

Alice Weasal
Bruce Mather
Charlotte Costello
Eddie Gilbert
Irell Embrey [? spelling of first name], (father from Bribie)
Fred Embury
Freda Hegarty
Harriet Mummin (Kangalu)
Jack Beatty [? spelling of last name]
Bradley - Kangalu
May Hegarty
Sunny Sunflower

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