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Aboriginal Australians
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Detribalisation in South Australia

  • F1767
  • Item
  • 19--

Review of unnamed film by Professor Campbell, Dean of Faculty of Dentistry, University of Adelaide.
Film is about Aboriginal life in far north of South Australia, and contrasts a traditional Aboriginal lifestyle, with the lives of Aboriginal people on reserves.

Duhig, James Vincent, 1889-1963

Papers relating to Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Sir Evan Mackenzie

  • F1621
  • Item
  • 1977

Photocopied papers compiled in support of an amended entry on Sir Evan Mackenzie, in Australian Dictionary of Biography. The papers document a massacre of Aboriginal people on or near Mackenzie's station at Kilcoy. Included : letter from Jim Gibbney , Australian Dictionary of Biography, to Gerry Langevad, 19 Oct 1977; death certificate of Richard James Coley; "Preliminary Suggested Amendment" of Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Sir Evan Mackenzie; and supporting notes.

Langevad, Gerry

Letter, 1928 Dec. 12 : Ooldea, to Phoebe Kirwan.

  • F1520
  • Item
  • 1928

Handwritten letter includes discussion about murders by Aboriginal people, some anecdotes about Aboriginal people at Ooldea and New Norcia Benedictine Mission, and general observations about the social conditions of Aboriginal people at the time.
Refers to a possible article by Daisy Bates for the Brisbane Telegraph.

Bates, Daisy, 1861-1951

Letter, 1928 Nov. 10 : Ooldea, to Phoebe Kirwan.

  • F1519
  • Item
  • 1928

Handwritten reply to Phoebe Kirwan's suggestion that Daisy Bates write about Aboriginal people for the Brisbane Telegraph.
Includes references to cannibalism.

Bates, Daisy, 1861-1951

Notebook of vocabulary of Aboriginal dialects [photocopy]

  • F1072
  • Item
  • 1855

Photocopy of handwritten notebook of vocabulary and phrases in Aboriginal languages, Queensland. Original notebook about 150 leaves, 16cm. Inside front cover of original : "W. Ridley, Minister of the Gospel, 21 February, 1855'.

Ridley, William, 1819-1878

Letter to Jack Vincent

  • F1020
  • Item
  • 1960

Handwritten letter dated 17 Jun 1960 from Father Edward Leo Hayes, Oakey (Queensland), to Jack Vincent regarding aboriginal relics.

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Hayes, Edward Leo, 1889-1967

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