Research Material on the Social Organisation of the Ungarinyin - The Kimberley, Western Australia [1 of 6]

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Language Group: Ungarinyin.

The material consists of 9 bundles, 121 pages, of research notes; handwritten and typescript entries record research undertaken by Elkin on the Ungarinyin people of the Kimberley, Western Australia. 

Bundle 1, 8 pp: 'Ungarinyin', Walcott Inlet Social Organisation. Subjects: marriage and choice of a wife. Includes a list of the tambun with their totems.

Bundle 2, 9 pp: Headings: Social Organisation & Kinship Systems, Ungarinyin tribe; Local Organisation'.

Bundle 3, 8 pp: A draft version of Bundle 1 notes.

Bundle 4, 8 pp: A more refined draft of Bundle 1 notes.

Bundle 5, 7 pp: Notes on Hordes, Moiety and Totems.

Bundle 6, 7 pp: copy of Bundle 5 notes.

Bundle 7, 6 pp: Typescript copy of Bundle 5 and 6 notes.

Bundle 8, 34 pp: Title: 'Social Organisation. Ungarinyin. Kinship System.' Draft notes and corrections in pen.

Bundle 9, 34 pp: This appears to be a later draft of Bundle 8 draft, entitled 'Social Organisation. Ungarinyin. Kinship System.' With a few pencil corrections.

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.