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Date(s)
- ca. 1934 (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
1 folder.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
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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Scope and content
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'.
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
Script of material
Language and script notes
Contains Biri, Budjari / Badjiri, Butchulla, Darumbal, Gambuwal, Gangulu, Gooreng Gooreng, Gubbi Gubbi, Gungabula, Guwa, Guwamu, Kullilli , Wakaya, Wiri and Wunumara language.
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Notes area
Note
Title transcribed from original folder.
Note
Box 7 Folder 4
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Subject access points
- Guwamu language D33
- Guwamu people D33
- Butchulla people E30
- Butchulla language E30
- Butchulla language
- Gubbi Gubbi language E29
- Gubbi Gubbi people E29
- Gubbi-Gubbi language
- Darumbal people E46
- Darumbal language E46
- Darumbal language
- Wiri people E57
- Wiri language E57
- Budjari / Badjiri people D31
- Budjari / Badjiri language D31
- Gambuwal language D29
- Gambuwal people D29
- Gooreng Gooreng language E32
- Gooreng Gooreng people E32
- Gureng Gureng (Australian people)
- Gureng Gureng language
- Guwa language G9.1
- Guwa people G9.1
- Wakaya people C16
- Wakaya language C16
- Gungabula language
- Gungabula language E35
- Gungabula people E35
- Biri people E56
- Biri language E56
- Gangulu people E40
- Gangulu language E40
- Kullilli language D30
- Kullilli people D30
- Wunumara people G16.1
- Wunumara language G16.1
- Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian
- East Queensland (E Qld SF55, SF56)
- South West Queensland (SW Qld SG54, SG55, SH54, SH55)
- Indigenous knowledge
- Geography -- Territories and boundaries
- Language -- Vocabulary -- Place names
- Aboriginal Australians
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Name access points
- Sunflower, Sunny (Contributor)
- Norley, Tommy (Contributor)
- Johnson, Abraham (Contributor)
- Wallace, G. (Contributor)
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Status
Revised
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 16-Oct-2024.
Revised, MSB, 11-Jul-2023.
Converted from PDF finding aid, AM, 19-May-2020.