949710
- TitleNorthern Territory Commissioner of Police papers relating to the search for the ship Douglas Mawson and reports of white women living among the Aborigines, 1924-1925
- Creator
- Call numberDLSPENCER 211
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
1924-1925 - Type of material
- Reference code949710
- Issue CopyDigitised
- Physical Description1 folder of textual material - typescript, manuscript
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
The S.S. Douglas Mawson was a wooden ketch rigged twin screw steamer which operated along the northern Queensland coast between Cairns and the Gulf of Carpentaria. In 1923 it was wrecked near Melville Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria. - Scope and ContentA series of letters mainly between the Northern Territory Commissioner of Police and the Administrator of the Northern Territory, with reports by mounted constables and others. These papers include occasional Aboriginal personal names and Aboriginal English/pidgin e.g. statement by Sambo.
- Language
- Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: In copyright
- Description source
Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012. - Name
- SubjectDixson Library (N.S.W.)
Shipwrecks--Gulf of Carpentaria.
Search and rescue operations.
Aboriginal Australians--Northern Territory.
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project, 2011-
Names, Personal--Aboriginal Australian.
Police--Northern Territory
Aboriginal Australians--Northern Territory--Languages.
Australian languages--Northern Territory--Vocabulary. - Place
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