Boxes 4-5: Survey forms and correspondence received by the Royal Anthropological Society of Australa...
Boxes 4-5: Survey forms and correspondence received by the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia regarding Aboriginal place names, 1899-1903, 1921-1926
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Full title
Date
1899-1903, 1921-1926
Call Numbers
MLMSS 7603/Boxes 4-5
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Language
Australian languages
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Physical Description
Contents
2 boxes of textual material
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Series
Arrangement
Box 4: The New South Wales survey forms have been arranged alphabetically by the place or district in which the forms were completed. Some forms were returned to the Society in bundles gathered from different places and held by a split pin (now removed). These have been kept in the order of their original groupings, which means that the alphabetical sequence is sometimes disturbed.
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Scope and Contents
Contents
This series comprises the completed survey forms about Aboriginal place names which were returned to William Wentworth Bucknell, Honorary General Secretary of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia, with associated correspondence.
BOX 4: New South Wales place names, 1899-1903
Several hundred survey forms completed by police...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Boxes 4-5: Survey forms and correspondence received by the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia regarding Aboriginal place names, 1899-1903, 1921-1926
Notes
General note
Microfilm copy available at CY 4555 (Box 4) and CY 4556 (Box 5/Folders 1,4,5)
Contextual Information
Administrative / Biographical history
The Society asked members to collect information on Aboriginal place names. In about August 1899 the Society circulated copies of a form to the governments of each colony with a request that they be sent to government officials in local areas. The survey asked for 'Name of Place' and 'Meaning or reason why it was given'. Extracts from the lists wer...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 7603/Boxes 4-5
Record Identifier
1bGdpOMY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1bGdpOMY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1077543
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