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Title
Herbert Basedow correspondence of the Northern Territory Department of Aboriginal Affairs, July to August 1911
Creator
Herbert Basedow, 1881-1933
Call number
A 2492
Level of description
fonds
Date

1911
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
992015
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
1 volume of textual material - manuscript, typescript: 36 pages
Scope and Content
Correspondence addressed to or written by Herbert Basedow, Chief Protector and Chief Medical Inspector, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Northern Terriitory regarding preparation of a scheme for the protection, systematic employment and medical supervision of the Aborigines of the Northern Territory.

Includes:
Department of Aboriginal Affairs System of Orthography (p. 5). To be used by 'Medical Inspectors and Inspectors while gathering information among Aboriginal tribes concerning their customs and secret rites ... [including] ... vocabularies of their dialects and native names in general.' Also includes some personal names.
Language
Australian languages, English
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Information transferred from Manuscripts Index Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2012-2013
General note

Microfilm copy available at CY 4307
Digital order no:Album ID : 1115051
Subject
Aboriginal Australians--Northern Territory.
Australian languages--Northern Territory
Aboriginal Australians--Government policy--Northern Territory
Aboriginal Australians--Northern Territory--Social life and customs.
Aboriginal Australians--Names.
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project, 2011-
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