Anthropological field notes and reports.

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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:

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

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of Sorry Business. It also may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Anthropological field notes and reports.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of Sorry Business. It also may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

Anthropological field notes and reports.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource may contain images, transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.

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.