SENSITIVE CONTENT Social Organisation Among the Nyul-Nyul, Beagle Bay. The Kimberley, Western Australia

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This item is entitled 'Social Organisation of the Nyul-Nyul' and is comprised of 109 loose leaf pages of typescript and handwritten lead pencil/ink notes. The pages contain typescript and handwritten entries in lead pencil and ink and are organised into 3 bundles.

The Social Organisation in this item relates primarily to the Nyulnyul people with references in Bundle 3 to the Jukun and Luritja.

Bundle 1, 28 pp: Heading: 'Local Organisation'. Kinship and kinship terms, the relationship system, the social significance of the use of terms, irregular but allowed marriages and 2 genealogies. [Includes a comprehensive descriptive map of 27 NL-NL tribe and hordes country, and names of neighbouring clans including the Jabera-Jabera on page 1. Places include Pender Bay, Jangerie Well, Jangan Spring].  

[Typed copy can be found in 790/01]

Bundle 2, 31 pp: A [working] copy of Bundle 1.

Bundle 3, 49 pp all handwritten notes: Bibliographic notes from Roth, Radcliffe-Brown, Bates et al, covering a range of topics including totemism, bullroarers, women's churginga [Bates], brief reference to Reincarnation, churinga - Broome, Nyul-Nyul Totemism, churginga, bullroarers; Churinga - Moola Bulla; Initiation, Luritcha [Luritja] ceremonies, dispersion in Australia, camp at Lombardina, map of northwest Western Australia noting language groups, names of camping places and name of language, Jukan [Jukun] kinship organisation. Sketches of 2 males, [Felix - this name written on the bottom of 1 sketch].

Places include: Western Australia, The Kimberley, Beagle Bay, Pender Bay, Lowangan, Valentine Island, Cornambie Point, Lombardina, Broome.

Elkin, AP. "Social Organization in the Kimberley Division” Oceania 2, no. 3 (1932): 296–333. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27976150 Accessed 21/11/2023 Elkin, AP. “The Rainbow-Serpent Myth in North-West Australia.” Oceania 1, no. 3 (1930): 349–52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40327333 Accessed 21/11/2023