Research Material on the Social Organisation of the Ungarinyin. The Kimberley, Western Australia. [3 of 6]

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The material comprises 2 bundles of typescript research notes recording aspects of the Social Organisation of the Ungarinyin people of The Kimberley, Western Australia. [See references for related publications.]

Bundle 1, 35 pp: 'The Ungarinyin tribe' [stamped] Received, Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Ltd. 14 Jun 1933. Typed notes with pencil corrections. Topics include: Moiety Totemism, Local Totemism, [The Wandjina], Tabu on the totem, Totemism and cave paintings, Increase of the totem, Artificial arrangements of stones and increase of species, Dream totemism. Tambun or horde countries are described.

Bundle 2, 18 pp: 'The Ungarinyin Tribe'. This appears to be an un-stamped copy of the title in Bundle 1, some minor differences in the later pages.

Mention: Stone arrangements; Rainbow Serpent - also called ungud, wondjad; Wandjina, Cave paintings and totemism.

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