Articles authored by Caroline Kelly, AP Elkin, SF Nadel, AR Radcliffe Brown and others.

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Anthropological field notes and reports.

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This file has three typescript copies (two are carbon copies) of 'Recollections of Thomas Davis' collected by Steele Rudd, two of which have a note in the top right-hand corner 'In the posession [sic] of Hon. Joshua Thomas Bell circ. 1908-9'. One copy has handwritten emandations.

These recollections were shared with his son, Arthur Hoey Davis (1868-1935) (whose pen name was Steele Rudd) mostly likely in the early 1900's. Thomas Davis was a former convict. His memoir covers the period from 1849 to the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859. Davis initially worked with J. C. Burnett's Survey Party. He recounts stories of the places he visited and their history, various encounters with local indigenous groups and individuals, language and culture of the Aboriginal people of the area, kinship system in the Maronoa and Balonne region, and a list of more than 100 names and phrases in the dialect of the people of the Balonne, Dawson and Comet river. Joshua Peter Bell is mentioned several times in memoir. This and other recollections by Thomas Davis were collected by Joshua Thomas Bell in the first decade of the 20th century.

Harry Throssell worked for the University of Queensland as a Lecturer in Social Work from 1966 to 1974. This file includes: a letter signed by Harold Throssell, Elizabeth Timms, and Laurie Hayes of the Select Committee on Deserted Wives to the President and Members of the Executive Committee of the Council of Social Services of Queensland, 12 Apr 1967; a carbon copy typescript of the Select Committee on Deserted Wives report with handwritten emendations, April 1967; ‘Deserted wives in Queensland’, 1967’; two poems by Clare Dunne; double-sided leaflet 'A Call for action at the University of Queensland' (regarding the state of emergency declared by the Queensland Government related to the Springbok tour in 1971 with the names of university staff (over 200 staff supported militant action), ending with it will be issued to the workers' rally at 9.30am and at 1pm the students and staff will march from St. Lucia), 1971; copy of a conference proceedings from "Seminar on Family Social Services', 1967?; pamphlet 'Strategy for left action' by Dan O'Neill, 1969; report by Edna Chamberlain, Roisin Hirschfeld and Jill Brown 'Some problems associated with research among urban Aboriginals', July 1973; List by publications by H. Throssell, 1969.

Correspondence and reports relating to Caroline Kelly’s anthropological survey.
Paper by Caroline Kelly on "the impact of European culture upon the Aborigines of New South Wales", ca. 1937

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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Correspondence and reports relating to Caroline Kelly’s anthropological survey. Including report and correspondence to the AP Board 1937, Anthropological survey August/September 1937.

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Notebook containing notes from field work in Aboriginal communities in New South Wales.
Report titled "Settlement at Wallaga Lake, Tilba Tilba NSW", accompanied by a letter to AP Elkin, ca. 1937

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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Anthropological field notes, reports, correspondence and draft papers relating to various aspects of Kelly’s field work in Queensland Aboriginal communities.

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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Correspondence. Includes an undated handwritten statement signed by Lenard Law, possibly writing as an amanuensis. The statement is written in the first-person and contains biographical details of an Aboriginal person confined against his/her wishes at the Cherbourg settlement.
Correspondents include Wilfred Wragge, Maidie Ross (Restricted), Arthur Cobba Simson, Doris Crawford, W. Porteus Semple (Superintendent Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement), Leslie Wilson (Governor of Queensland), and Tom Blackman.

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Anthropological field notes and reports.

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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