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Field Notebooks and Research Material Relating to First Nations Peoples in the Kimberleys [Adolphus Peter (AP) Elkin] (Series 722)

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IdentifierSRS-00000722Content WarningThis series may include items that contain images and/or names of deceased people, which may cause distress and sadness to First Nations peoples. This series may also include items that contain content and language, which reflect the attitudes of the historical period in which they were created, and which may be considered discriminatory, insensitive, outdated and/or offensive in today’s context. The items in this series are preserved without alteration as historical evidence.Date1927 to 1977Description

Due to the nature of the records, the Archives reserves the right to restrict, limit or refuse access to any item/s without prior notice, on the basis of personal privacy or out of respect for the rights and/or beliefs of First Nations people in accordance with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library, Information and Resource Network (ATSILIRN) protocols.

This series contains Elkin's notebooks on genealogy, language, and geology, as well as correspondence, maps, photographs, copies of published and unpublished journal articles, newspaper cuttings, personal diaries, and other research material dealing with First Nations communities and peoples in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia.

Note that the records were sorted by the Department of Anthropology into artificial series based on subject prior to their deposit in the Archives in 1983. See biographical note for further details.

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ELKIN, AP “Social Organization in the Kimberley Division, North Western Australia.” Oceania 2, no3 (1932): 296–333. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27976150 (Accessed 14/11/2023)

Elkin, AP “The Rainbow-Serpent Myth in North-West Australia.” Oceania 1, no3 (1930): 349–52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40327333 . (Accessed 14/11/2023)

Elkin, AP “Totemism in North-Western Australia: (The Kimberley Division).” Oceania 3, no. 3 (1933): 257–96. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40327417 (Accessed 14/11/2023)

Elkin, AP “Totemism in North-Western Australia (The Kimberley Division) (Part II. Continued).” Oceania 4, no. 1 (1933): 54–64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40327445 (Accessed 14/11/2023)

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Copy of Chapter 4 ('Karadjeri-like Systems') of "Australian Systems of Kin Classification" by H W Scheffler. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [Karajarri]

Correspondence with Professor Radcliffe-Brown

Correspondence, Newspaper articles, Language, Genealogies. Forrest River Mission, Kalgoorlie. Western Australia.

Diary at Beagle Bay and Lombardina Missions

Drawings by Children at the Forrest River Mission. The Kimberley, Western Australia.

Extract From "Not Slaves - Children" by P Biskup, Concerning the Onmalmeri massacre in 1926-1927. The Kimberley, Western Australia.

Genealogy Notebook I, Nul - Nul [Nyulnyul]. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [Nyulnyul, Bardi, Yawuru]

Genealogy Notebook II, Bad. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [Bardi]

Genealogy notebook III, Bad, Djau. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [Bardi, Jawi]

Genealogy notebook IV, Jabera-Jaber. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [Jabirrjabirr, Nyulnyul]

Genealogy notebook IX, Hall's Creek. 1. Lunga. 2. Jaru. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [Jaru, Kija]

Genealogy notebook V, Karadjeri. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [Karajarri]

Genealogy notebook VI, Djukan, Normbal, Nigini, Yauor. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [Jukan, Ngumbarl, Nyikina, Yawuru]

Genealogy notebook VII, Forrest River. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [Bemba [Kular], Yiiji, Arawari, Andedja [Ungarinyin]

Genealogy notebook VIII, Walcott Inlet, Unarinyin. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [Ungarinyin, Wunambal, Worrorra]

General Research Material on the Kimberley, Western Australia and Northern Territory, Tiwi Islands. [Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Jukun, Worrorra, Nyulnyul and Tiwi Islanders]

Graph of Temperatures and Rainfall. Port George IV, Hanover Bay, Northwest Kimberley, Western Australia

In Search of a Priest, A Life of Ernest Gribble by Neville Green. Forrest River Mission, The Kimberley, Western Australia

Journal entries, Wyndham to Derby

Journals and Diaries - Report on Forrest River Mission, Kimberley

Lessons in the Forrest River Language by Capell, Arthur

Letters by Les Hiatt, Günter Guhr, RM Crawford and Robert Koch. The Kimberley, Western Australia.

Letters to Sally Elkin from AP Elkin

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Person - Created ByElkin, Adolphus Peter (AP)Person - Controlled ByElkin, Adolphus Peter (AP)CollectionFirst Nations Communities

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Alternate IdentifierEDRMS: ACCESSION-2555, 2006/2052; Old Control Number: P130/01Metadata StatusComplete