948024
- TitleAboriginal words and names, Upper Clarence River dialect, collected by Thomas George Hewitt, ca. 1909; with introduction, notes and index by Robert L. Dawson, 1936
- Creator
- Call numberB 857
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1909-1936 - Type of material
- Reference code948024
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical Description1 volume of textual material (25 p.) - manuscript
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Thomas George Hewitt (1841-1915) grew up in New England where his father was a station manager for the Australian Agricultural Company. He studied for the Bar without ever practicing law and later took up journalism, accepting the editorial chair of the Clarence and Richmond Examiner. He was a prominent citizen of Grafton becoming the town's mayor on two occasions.
Reference:
Obituaries Australia http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/hewitt-thomas-george-14158 - Scope and ContentIncludes names for native fauna, parts of the human body, weapons and domestic articles, the elements and heavenly bodies, trees and plants, tribes with localities, place names, miscellaneous words, words to which no names given and corroboree songs.
- Language
- Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: In copyright
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Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder - Finding AidsRead the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D20835/a8120.html
- Description source
Information transferred from Short Catalogue (typed) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012 - General note
Microfilm available at CY 2355, frames 139 - 171
AIATSIS language, code and map grid reference:
Bundjalung / Banjalang language (E12) (NSW SH56-02)
Digital order no:Album ID : 1031483 - Creator/Author/Artist
- SubjectAboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Languages
Names, Aboriginal Australian--New South Wales--Clarence River Region.
Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales.
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project, 2011-
Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Clarence River Region.
Aboriginal Australians--Music.
Bundjalung language E12 - Exhibited in
Living Language: Country, Culture, Community - State Library of New South Wales (13 July - 17 November, 2019). Applies to: p. 5 - Open Rosetta viewer
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