SENSITIVE CONTENT Research Material on Methods of Obtaining Wives in the Kimberleys. Western Australia. [Nyulnyul and Bardi]

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Language Groups: Nyulnyul and Bardi.

The item consists of 2 draft research articles, annotated typescript.

Bundle 1, 6 pp: 'Methods of obtaining a wife Nyul-Nyul & Bard'. [Nyul-Nyul is handwritten at the top of page 2]. Note entitled: 'Init[iation] Bard Tribe [?]' on the inside page 2. Version also in item P130/1/61

Bundle 2, 5 pp: "Means of acquiring a wife." [Bard is handwritten at the top of page 1].

Information sourced primarily from P130/1/9 Field notebook II; P130/1/10: Field notebook III; P130/1/11 Field notebook IV; and P130/1/18: Genealogy notebook I

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