Notebook containing field work research notes, handwritten, and tape transcriptions from a field trip to the Gulf Country region in 1980. According to a handwritten note on the cover, it also contains some information relating to 'N.R.L.C.' [Nicholson River Land Rights Claim?]. The notebook is labelled 'Collation FB and tapes FT'. Many of the notes transcribe content on the tape recordings. Some of the names mentioned include Clara O'Keefe, Emily Arthur, Arthur, Emily Ned, Jupiter Peter, Stanley Gilbert, John Watson, Archie Rockland, Wilfred Walden, Redbank, Echo Peter, Willie Doomadgee, Tommy George, Mick Diamond, Clara Bob, Phil Ned, Dick Brookdale and Alan Jupiter.

The following subjects are specified on the inside of the front cover:
B: Bundija (tobacco);
C: Ceremonial life/Christianity;
D: Domains;
E: Economy;
G: Grog;
H: Health; History;
K: Kinship;
L: Land rights; Language;
M: Mt Isa: Mat. [material?] Culture/'Money'; Missionaries;
N: Names;
P: Police: Politics (leadership);
R: 'Race';
S: Social Security Dept <--> Doomadgee; 'Skin'; Stations;
T: Travel; Tradition.

Also includes a photocopy of 'Statement made after examining the Gulf Country collections at the Queensland Museum and University of Queensland Anthropology Museum', which is a typed transcription of a tape recording of David Trigger's visit to the aforementioned museums with Tommy George from Doomadgee, 26 March 1984. This transcription is inserted between pages 151 and 152, which contain notes referring to the museums visit.

Content advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this resource contains information about Men's Business and initiation, sacred objects, colonial violence including massacre, and traditional customs. This resource contains transcripts or names of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples now deceased. It may also contain historically and culturally sensitive words, terms, and descriptions.