430388
- TitleJames Erskine Calder - Aborigines of Tasmania, 1821-1877
- Creator
- Call numberA 597
- Level of descriptionseries
- Date
ca. 1821, 1829, 1831, 1876-1877 - Type of material
- Reference code430388
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical Description0.04 metres of textual material (1 vol.) - manuscript - 112 pages
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
James W. Agnew, born in Ireland, was a medical practitioner and politician. He worked as colonial surgeon in Hobart with the right of private practice, served as the Royal Society's honorary secretary in 1861-1868 and 1884-1894, and was on the Legislative Councils elected in 1877 and 1884.
Between 1830-1831, Alexander McKay worked under George Augustus Robinson in the location and removal of Aboriginals in the north-east of Tasmania. For thirteen weeks McKay was in charge of natives whom they had transferred to Swan Island.
-- References: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.1, 1788-1850 & Vol.3, 1851-1890. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1966 & 1969 - Scope and ContentCorrespondence, notes, and accounts gathered by James Erskine Calder that relate to European interactions, conduct, and treatment of Tasmanian Aboriginals with particular focus on indigenous language and vocabulary.
Copies of Calder's 1876 letters to the Honourable Alfred Kennerley and to the Premier Thomas Reibey (1876-1877) requesting a public monument to Truganini for her "good services to the country" and relates activities of Mr George Augustus Robinson. Inclusion of Riebey's response dated 27 February 1877
Letter addressed to Dr Agnew, Secretary of the Royal Society [formerly the Tasmanian Society], with notes on the languages and dialects of Aborigines of Tasmania and prominent individuals (especially Robinson and Jorgenson), 1st September 1876
Copy of 'Some remarks on a short vocabulary of the natives of Van Diemen's Land; and also of the Menero Downs in Australia', by Dr. John Lhotsky, F. R. Bot. Soc. of Bavaria, 17 May 1877
Letter from James R. Scott, son of Thomas Scott, to James Erskine Calder, 17 May 1877, providing "Words of the Oyster Bay Tribe of Tasmanian Aborigines, attained by Thomas Scott, Assistant Surveyor General, in September 1821, when surveying the coast from Prossers River northwards" [pages 32-33 library pagination of original manuscript]
Copy of letter to James W. Agnew regarding James Erskine Calder's paper on "language of the aborigines of Tasmania", 21 September 1876
Plan showing the exact spot where Truganini is buried [and] Truganini's grave
Extracts dated 8 and 11 July, 11 August 1829 [account of the deaths of aboriginal males Jack, Catharine and William]
Personal account and observations made by Alex McKay about the removal of the Cape Portland tribe by George Robinson from mainland Tasmania to [Swan] Island and indigenous customs, 20 October 1830
Deaths of Capt. B. B. Thomas and Mr J. [i.e. James] Parker, 31st August 1831. Account taken from "The Independent" a Launceston newspaper [and inquest] - Language
- Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: In copyright
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales - Finding AidsRead the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D23817/a9229.html
- General note
The volume was rebound into new covers at an unknown date.
Papers bear several watermarks including, "F.A. Gordon / 1866"; "W. Collins Sons & Co."; "Saunders Superfine" ; "T & J & H / Superfine"
D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
Microfilm - CY 1162, frames 1 - 117 (A 597)
AIATSIS language, code and map grid reference:
Palawa Karni / Tasmanian languages (Tas)
(accessed February 2014)
Digital order no:Album ID : 1054969 - Signatures / Inscriptions
Titled on spine - Conservation note
Loose page at front of volume - Creator/Author/Artist
- Name
- SubjectAboriginal Australians--Languages.
Aboriginal Tasmanians--History.
Aboriginal Tasmanians--Tasmania.
David Scott Mitchell Collection.
Tasmania--History--1803-1851.
Tasmania--History--1851-1891.
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project, 2011-
Aboriginal Australians--Tasmania.
Aboriginal Australians--Languages--Vocabulary.
Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs. - Place
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