C.28 (a,b) Yukum [Yugambeh, Jagara]
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Language groups: Yugambeh, Jagara, Githabul and Yugamba
In Bundle 3 Radcliffe-Brown qualifies language group names. He proposes to use the name Yukum for the larger clan group, the country of which extends into Queensland - the Yukambeh [Yugambeh], and keep the name Yukambal [Yugambal] for the New England district tribe.
A number of places and natural sites are mentioned including: Warwick, Woodenbong, Tambourine Mountain, Tabulam, Albert River and Tweed Rivers, western coast of Cape York Peninsular, New England and Beaudesert.
The item is comprised of 10 bundles, 135 pages, of handwritten and typescript genealogies, systems and field notes.
Bundle 1: Notes on the Yagara system - 2 copies: 1 transcript and 1 handwritten notes.
Bundle 2: Notes on the locations of the Gelil and [Gumbaynggir] groups.
Bundle 3: Yukum, Yukumbil, Kitabul, S.E. Queensland, - notes on social organisation, kinship terminology, bibliographic, locational maps.
Bundle 4: Article entitled "Notes on Totemism in Eastern Australia" by Radcliffe-Brown. Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. L1X, July-December, 1929. Including a 1 page typescript note indicating a correction to the article.
Bundle 5: 1 page of handwritten bibliographic notes, and notes tribes of southern Queensland and Northern NSW.
Bundle 6: APPENDIX - Grammar, Vocabulary, and Notes of the Wangerriburra Tribe. Orthography. pp 23 - 39 [Written in ink on cover "Queensland Aboriginal Department, Annual Report, 1913", ? in the hand of Radcliffe-Brown]. The appendix is from the 1913 Annual Report of the Chief Protector of Aboriginals for the year 1913. (1914 Queensland). Within this bundle is also a map of the Wangerriburra or Albert Tribe country and 3 pages with 6 photographs. The photographs are captioned: 1. John Allen, last survivor of Wangerriburra Tribe with any Knowledge of the Dialect, 2. John Allen and Mr. John Lane, 3. John Allen's cottage - Mundoolun Station, 4. Scene on Mundoolun Station - In Wangerriburra District, 5,6. Scenes on Mundoolun Station, the Home of the Wangerriburra Tribe. [Yugambeh Language Group].
Bundle 7: 2 pages of handwritten entries which appear concerned with Totems of several language groups incuding the Kittabal [Githabul], [?Nyangbal] and Yukum.
Bundle 8: Research notes on Yukum[?bal deleted] [Yugambeh] ceremonies for increase of natural species contained within an University of Sydney blue examination booklet. Four pages loose, and not all in use.
Bundle 9: Handwritten notes on Yukum system of classification of natural species.
Bundle 10: Research notes on Social Organisation, of the Yukumbil and Yagara [Yugambeh and Jagara], including genealogies within a notebook which has 12 loose sheets of paper with notes written on too.
Bundle 11: Handwritten research notes within a notebook on Increase Rites of the Yukumbil [Yugambeh].
Bundle 12: 1 page of handwritten notes related to the Yukum, [Yugambeh] however the subject is unclear.
Bundle 13: A Journal article by Richard Lauriston Sharp entitled: The Social Anthropology of a Totemic System in North Queensland, Australia. The name of the subject language group does not appear in this article.
Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. “Notes on Totemism in Eastern Australia.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 59 (1929): 399–415. https://doi.org/10.2307/2843892 (Accessed 18/09/2024)
1913 Annual Report of the Chief Protector of Aboriginals for the year 1913. (1914 Queensland) https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/digitised_collections/remove/63892.pdf (Accessed 18/09/2024)