SENSITIVE CONTENT Research Material on the Social Organisation of the Ungarinyin. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [2 of 6]

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Language Group: Ungarinyin.

This material comprises 5 bundles, 44 loose leaf pages, of typescript and handwritten black ink entries recording the Social Organisation of the Ungarinyin people of the Kimberley, Western Australia. 

Bundle 1, 3 pp: 'The Ungarinyin Tribe. NW Australia.'

Bundle 2, 12 pp: 'Increase Ceremonies'. [pencil note] 'Ungarinyin'.

Bundle 3, 11 pp: 'Burial' 'Ungarinyin'. Includes diagram of a Durgan, Yandal and Djilgai.

Bundle 4, 7 pp: 'Initiation. Ungarinyin tribe'.

Bundle 5, 11 pp: 'Conception and Spirit-Children'. [pencil note] 'Ungarinyin'. Includes notes on Dream Totem, Wife Lending, Marriage, Myths - Anauagneri horde, Myths - Ungarinyin, The Milky Way.

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