General Research Material on the Kimberley, Western Australia and Northern Territory, Tiwi Islands. [Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Jukun, Worrorra, Nyulnyul and Tiwi Islanders]

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The material consists of 2 bundles of 26 pages, and 4 loose pages handwritten research notes on aspects of the social organisation of the Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Jukun. References to the Worrorra and Tiwi Islanders is taken primarily from the bibliographic notes in Bundle 1.

Bundle 1, 23 pp: Elkin's lecture and research notes, referencing Basedow, Mathews, Bradshaw, Froggatt, and other historical sources. Subjects include: cave paintings, rock carvings, artefacts, foods. Primarily the Northern Territory and the Kimberley.

Bundle 2, 3 pp: 'Chapter IX, The Bunaba [Bunuba] and Gunian [Gooniyandi] Tribes'. Subsections, language. Reference to the significance of The Rainbow Serpent in Bunuba mythology.

Loose leaf, 4 pp: list of sections, citing animals, and women's place; Djukan [Jukun] Kinship and Marriages; Newl Newl [Nyulnyul]: small article on two mysterious 'air-cleavers'.

Places: Western Australia, The Kimberley, Northern Territory, Tiwi Islands.

Mention: The Rainbow Serpent in Bunuba mythology; Galeru - Bunuba name for The Rainbow Serpent; wunggurie - equivalent of Galeru.