Full-length portrait of an Aboriginal Australian child, aged about 3. The handwritten notes accompanying a print of the negative in Series A Item 1 identifies him as 'Tommy, section Ko-bro of the Dalleburra Tribe'. The note also attributes his despairing facial expression to the fact Mrs Christison dressed him in a 'Tumburra', a clothing item worn only by women, mistakenly thinking it was worn universally.

21 glass plate negatives, 12 x 17 cm, created by Mary Christison and compiled by Mary Christison's daughter, Mary Montgomerie Bennett. The plates contain images of Lammermoor Homestead; three portraits of Robert Christison at ages 20, 40 and 75; and various identified Aboriginal Australian individuals of the Dalleburra Tribe, Mitchell District in North Queensland. Some of the plates contain photographs of photographs.

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Handwritten and typed anthropological field notes, reports, correspondence between Kelly and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, and draft papers relating to various aspects of Kelly’s field work in Queensland Aboriginal communities. Titles of some of the papers include 'Christianity and the native', 'Religion', 'Fight among the Kaingbul', and 'Notes on the retention of ritual and customs among missionised natives'. There is one untitled paper in which the first line reads 'This paper forms portion of a study of the impact of European culture upon the Aborigines of New South Wales'.

List of full or partial names of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander individuals mentioned in the file.

? Brown [first name not provided]
Mr Perkins
Bob Eubbard / Bob Hubbard

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