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Title
Miscellaneous papers relating to Aborigines, ca. 1839-1871
Call number
A 610
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1839-1871
Type of material
Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
430548
Issue Copy
Partly Digitised
Physical Description
1 volume - 0.04 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (printed)
Drawings
Scope and Content
pp. 1-4: To Electors. From "The Atlas" of June 19th, 1841. Notice from Frederick Maitland Innes, Secretary of the Committee of the "Aborigines' Protection (printed) [handwritten note about the Natives of King George Sound]

pp. 5-20: Extracts from the Australian Record No.5 1839 and the Colonial Gazette 1841 relating to treatment of Aborigines

pp. 21-22: New South Wales Murders by Aborigines in the Northern Districts, 1853. Return to an address from the Legislative Council of N.S.W. dated 27 July 1852.

pp. 23-26: :Police District of Ipswich / Moreton, Surat, Maryborough, Brisbane, Gayndah, Grafton, Casino, and Drayton, 1847-1851 [reports with entries for number, name, occupation, date of murder, and what steps have been taken to punish the offenders]

pp. 27-46: Vocabulary of dialects of Aboriginal Tribes of Tasmania, 1856 (No.7) by Joseph Milligan (printed) - Tribes from Oyster Bay to Pittwater; Tribes about Mount Royal, Brune [sic] Island, Recherche Bay, and the South of Tasmania; Northwest and Western. Also includes 'Short Sentences in the Native Language', 'Some Aboriginal Names of Places in Tasmania' and 'Some Names of Aborigines of Tasmania.'

pp. 47-48: Aboriginal Languages of Tasmania [list with English equivalents].

pp. 49-58: Aboriginal Languages of Tasmania [extract with printed table]

pp. 59-78: [Language notes by William Thomas]

pp. 79-84: [Circulars about the Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne and preserving the history, traditions, customs, and language of Aboriginal Natives, 1866]

pp. 85-104: Instructions for the guidance of those using the ethnical alphabet, or alphabet of nations [with key. Printed]

pp. 105-108: Native Poetry

pp. 113-162: The Myths of the New World by Brinton, 1868

pp. 163-178: Australasia [includes notes on Aborigines of Moreton Bay, the Murray area, Port Jackson]

pp. 179-182: Intas Vai Josua im Nupu Isrell [translation of the bible]

pp. 183-184: [Various notes on Aboriginal language]

pp. 185-186: Appeal of the British and Foreign Aborigines' Protection Society. President Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton [claim and mission of the society. Printed]

pp. 187-188: "The Aborigines", Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser, 13 Sept. 1841 [commentary on Captain Grey's report and Members of the Committee of the Church Missionary Society]

pp. 189-192: "Mr Darwin on the Descent of Man", The Times, 8 Apr. 1871

pp. 193-194: Aboriginal Implements and Manufacturers [advertisement for products modelled on Dr. W.E. Roth's publication, "North Queensland Ethnography"]

pp. 195-196: "The escape of James Morrell from the Blacks", The Leader

pp. 197-207: Drawings (pencil and watercolour) of Aboriginal carvings at Middle Head, South Head and Point Piper / W.A. Miles [i.e. William Augustus Miles], [7 cardboard panels]. See digital images attached to this record.
Language
Australian languages, palawa kani language T16
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

There is no internal evidence as to the creator or collector of this work.
This is an artificially constructed series based on subject matter and was compiled at an unknown date.
D.S. Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.
Microfilm copy made, Oct. 1986.

Microfilm copy at CY 979, frames 287 - 465 (A 610)

Clearance to link album given by the Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project Group
Digital order no:Album ID : 823642
Signatures / Inscriptions

Embossed on spine, "Aborigines"
Creator/Author/Artist
Miles, William Augustus
Subject
Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians--Government policy.
Aboriginal Australians--Languages.
Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Art.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
David Scott Mitchell Collection.
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project, 2011-
Aboriginal Australians--Names.
Aboriginal Tasmanians--Languages.
Aboriginal Australians--Tasmania.
palawa kani language T16
Topic
Aboriginal art
rock engravings
Place
Oyster Bay (Tas.)
Bruny Island (Tas.)
Recherche Bay (Tas.)
Exhibited in

Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney, 1770-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (5 June - 13 August, 2006). Applies to: Pages 199,201,207,209
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