Sub-series 1: Frederick Rose Groote Eylandt papers, 1933-1980

MLMSS 10167/Boxes 27-32, 34
MLMSS 10167/Box 33X

sub-series

1933-1980

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Ephemera, Photographs

9619433

2.1 metres of textual material and photographs (7 boxes and 1 outsize box)

BOX 27
Working Papers and Photographs regarding Groote Eylandt, 1930s-1940s, including:
‘Working Papers / Groote Eylandt 1941 Data’, 1943-1946 with corresponding data file;
Groote Eylandt papers, including Groote Eylandt Diary 1938 parts 1-6, and a typescript list of corrections to one of Rose’s books

The Place of the Australian Aboriginal in the Evolution of Society – A Vindication of Lewis Morgan, 1940, including:
The Place of the Aboriginal in the Evolution of Society. A Vindication of Lewis Morgan (First Revision) Sept. 1943 by A.T.H. Jolly and F.G.G. Rose;
Copy of the original typescript of The Place of the Australian Aboriginal in the Evolution of Society – A Vindication of Lewis Morgan dated 24 Dec 1940, a copy of the published article The Place of the Australian Aboriginal in the Evolution of Society – with a foreword by C.D. Darlington in the Annals of Eugenics, 12, 1, 44-87, 1943

BOX 28
Habilitationschrift: The Relationship System of the Groote Eylandt Aborigines 1956, including:
The Relationship System of the Groote Eylandt Aborigines: A Study in Method by F.G.G. Rose M.A. (Cantab.), being bound carbon typescript of first draft, Melbourne, Dec. 1943, second draft, Canberra, 1949, and third version returned by P. Worsley in 1983 labelled “no.3 of 4”;
Habilitationschrift: The Relationship System of the Groote Eylandt Aborigines: A Study in Method (Berlin, Aug. 1956) by F.G.G. Rose M.A. (Cantab.), being bound corrected typescript of first and second drafts;
The Relationship System of the Groote Eylandt Aborigines: A Study in Method (Berlin, Sept. 1956) by F.G.G. Rose M.A. (Cantab.), being carbon typescript;
‘Terminological Relationships between those Surviving of Rose’s Informants Living at Angurugu Mission 1969’;
Papers re The Relationship System of the Groote Eylandt Aborigines (2 files);
‘Data Obtained from Fred Gray 1965’ re Groote Eylandt Aboriginal family groups and Ayers Rocks Rituals;
Papers re The Relationship System of the Groote Eylandt Aborigines, with other material, 1940s-1960s, including a copy of playscript,” ‘Justice’ or Black Murder”

BOX 29
Photo album re Groote Eylandt, 1938-1939;
Working papers on Groote Eylandt 1941 and data 1943-46, incl. transcription of Groote Eylandt words into phonetic orthography by F. Rose and Eric Worsley, and original version of Habilitationschrift as submitted in 1956 ;
‘The Sociology of the Groote Eylandt Aborigines’

Classification of Kin, Age Structure and Marriage Amongst the Groote Eylandt Aborigines, 1957, including:
Classification of Kin, Age Structure and Marriage Amongst the Groote Eylandt Aborigines: A Study in Method and a Theory of Australian Kinship (Oct. 1957) by F.G.G. Rose M.A. (Cantab.), being two bound carbon typescript parts, “no. 1 of 4” and “no. 2 of 4”

BOX 30
Classification of Kin, Age Structure and Marriage Amongst the Groote Eylandt Aborigines, 1957, including:
Bound typescript of Classification, Kin, Age Structure and Marriage Amongst the Groote Eylandt Aborigines (1959);
Bound draft of Classification, Kin, Age Structure and Marriage Amongst the Groote Eylandt Aborigines (1959) with the mention ‘Draft Preface not used in published version’;
Reader’s report (?) on Classification, Kin, Age Structure and Marriage Amongst the Groote Eylandt Aborigines with file of reports ‘Appendices A-K’

Ripples in the Gulf: The Carpentaria Puppet Show of 1938 (1980s book based on 1938 Diary), including:
Carbon typescript of Ripples in the Gulf: The Carpentaria Puppet Show of 1938 (12.7.80)

BOX 31
Ripples in the Gulf: The Carpentaria Puppet Show of 1938 (1980s book based on 1938 Diary), including:
Master copy of Ripples in the Gulf: The Carpentaria Puppet Show of 1938;
Corrections and appendices to Ripples in the Gulf;
Introductory chapters to Ripples in the Gulf;
‘Original MS Carpentaria Ripples 1975’;
‘Ripples in the Gulf / Working Papers & Correspondence’

BOX 32
Ripples in the Gulf: The Carpentaria Puppet Show of 1938 (1980s book based on 1938 Diary), including:
Copy of letter from F. Rose to P.A. Ryan (Dir. Melbourne Univ. Press), 8 Oct. 1975, with enclosed carbon typescript of Carpentaria Ripples 1938 and copy of comments by Ryan on the manuscript;
Typescript photocopy of Ripples in the Gulf: The Carpentaria Puppet Show of 1938. 378pp, dated 12.7.1980 to 15.8.1980

BOX 33X
Other research papers: The sociology of Groote Eylandt; 1930s-1950s research materials, including:
Commonwealth Meteorological Bureau Bulletin no.32, 1945 “Frost in the Australian Region”;
"Valuations: summaries of the main provisions of the acts relating to the valuation of country land in Australia for taxation and local government rating purposes 1948”
"Land laws and tenures: schedule of main provisions relating to the sale of agricultrural and grazing land... 1948"

BOX 34
More research materials: reports on land laws, land valuation and tenure by various authors, 1944-1948; reports and bulletins from the Commonwealth Meteorological Bureau, 1916?, 1945, 1947; and Brief History of the Australian Waterfront and the Waterside Workers’ Union by Jim Healy;
‘Archive Material re Groote Eylandt / Flying Boat Base’, 1933-1975;
Two confidential reports by Dr Cecil Cook: Report on Health problems in Northern Australia 08.1951 and Survey of Aboriginal Diets in Western Australia 1951;
1947 newspaper article from Sovietskaia Etnografia given to Rose by Pr. Tokarev;
Script for a 3.6.1958 Kolloquium;
Copy of Rose’s "The Soviet Criticism of Engels’ Origin of the Family", written in Australia 1955;
Folder of processed typescript copies of Australia’s Policy in Relation to External Territories (1950) and Some Problems of Development in New Guinea (Mar. 1953)

German, English

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Copyright holder:: Dr Ruth Struwe is the copyright owner of her father, Professor Frederick Rose's writings
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