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- 1936 (Creation)
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1 folder.
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Emily Caroline Watson was born in Manchester in 1899, she moved to Australia in the 1920s and became involved in the theatre, first in Brisbane and then in Sydney. During this time, she used her mother's maiden name and was known as Carrie Tennant. In 1929, Caroline married Francis Kelly and took his surname. She founded the Community Playhouse, the first theatre in New South Wales devoted to producing Australian drama, in 1929, followed by the Play Society in 1931. She edited The Community Magazine: Official Magazine of the Community Play-house from 1930 to 1931. In the 1930s she enrolled in a Diploma in Anthropology at the University of Sydney and went on to conduct anthropological fieldwork in Aboriginal communities at Fraser Island and Cherbourg in Queensland and at Burnt Bridge in New South Wales. During the Second World War she began a major survey of non-British settlement in Australia for the Commonwealth Government, a project that continued until the late 1940s. Towards the end of her working life, she served as a consulting anthropologist to the State Planning Authority of New South Wales. Caroline Kelly died on 1 September 1989 in Kyogle.
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Notebook, partly paginated by hand, containing handwritten notes from field work in Aboriginal communities in Kempsey and other parts of New South Wales, as well as a typed report, six leaves, partly paginated, titled 'Settlement at Wallaga Lake, Tilba Tilba NSW', accompanied by a typed letter to Adolphus Peter Elkin, ca. 1937. Also includes a typed and unsigned letter addressed 'Dear Mr Lazybones'.
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]
Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains mention of funeral rites and burial ceremonies. 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.
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Unrestricted access.
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In copyright. Contact the Fryer Library. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
Language of material
- Australian Language
- English
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Language and script notes
Contains some words in Birrbay and Dhanggati / Dungutti language.
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Note
Title transcribed from original folder.
Note
Box 7 Folder 20
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- Dhanggati / Dunghutti language E6
- Dhanggati / Dunghutti people E6
- Dhungutti (Australian people)
- Dhungutti language
- Birrbay language E3
- Birrbay people E3
- Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian
- Indigenous knowledge
- Hunting, gathering and fishing
- Death -- Mourning
- Death -- Beliefs
- Death -- Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Religions -- Christianity -- Missions
- Religions -- Christianity -- Church and mission buildings
- Buildings -- Architecture and design
- Kempsey (NSW N Coast SH56-14)
- Wallaga Lake (NSW Far S Coast SJ55-04)
- Tilba (NSW Far S Coast SJ55-04)
- Aboriginal Australians
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- Davis, Chris (Contributor)
- Gardner, Barney (Contributor)
- Woodlands, Albert (Contributor)
- Davis, Herbert (Contributor)
- Mocow, Sara (Contributor)
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Revised
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Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 16-Oct-2024.
Revised, MSB, 14-Jul-2023.
Converted from PDF finding aid, AM, 19-May-2020.