Anthropological field notes and reports, mostly handwritten.

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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. 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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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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