Reports to the Commissioner of Police and others, on Queensland Aborigines, 1898-1900, 1903, by Walt...
Reports to the Commissioner of Police and others, on Queensland Aborigines, 1898-1900, 1903, by Walter Edmund Roth
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Date
1898-1903
Call Numbers
CY 208
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Language
Australian languages
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1 microfilm reel (part) of textual material, drawings and photographs.
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Copyright status : In copyright
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Contents
1. Report to the Commissioner of Police, Queensland, June 1898.
2. Report to the Commissioner of Police, Queensland, July 1898. The Aborigines of Rockhampton and surrounding coastal districts, with vocabularies and sign language
3. Some Ethnographical Notes of the Atherton Blacks, Oct. 1898, with vocabularies including Chirpal, Kung-g...
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Full title
Reports to the Commissioner of Police and others, on Queensland Aborigines, 1898-1900, 1903, by Walter Edmund Roth
Authors, Artists and Contributors
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Notes
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Note:
Sign language, frames 77-80
Vocabulary, frames 81-180
Chirpal, Kung-gan-ji, Ngachan, Nigi-komga, Yi-diri-ji vocabularies, 197 - 213
Other vocabularies including:
Kokominni, frames 369-376 (Some of this is published in 'Ethnological Studies' 1897)
Koko-olkullo, frames 377-384
Kundara, frames 385-392
Description source
Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010
Contextual Information
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The original collection is held at Queensland State Archives. It was transferred in 1977 from the Mitchell Library (Call Number: MLMSS 216)
Administrative / Biographical history
Walter Edmund Roth was born in London in 1861. He undertook medical training at St Thomas's Hospital, London before coming to Australia in 1887 where he worked as a schoolteacher. In 1890 he returned to London to complete his medical training. From 1894 he practised medicine in north-west Queensland. He developed an interest in Aboriginal anthropo...
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CY 208
Record Identifier
9gkdqXD9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9gkdqXD9
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897195
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