C.55 Murawari

Due to the nature of the records, the Archives reserves the right to restrict, limit or refuse access to any item/s without prior notice, on the basis of personal privacy or out of respect for the rights and/or beliefs of First Nations people in accordance with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Library, Information and Resource Network (ATSILIRN) protocols.

The social organisation pertains to the Gamilaraay, Wongaibon, Wiriyaraay, Murawari, Yuwaalayaay-Euahlayi, Weilan and Kogai [Queensland] language groups. Mentions: Raitjun (about Uralla) which spoke a dialect closely related to the Nganyaywana and the Dunghutti; Bigambul, Wiradjuri.

Places: New South Wales, Queensland, New England, Uralla, Glen Innes, Inverell, Angledool, Walgett, Coonamble, Pilliga, Culgoa, Namoi, Narran Rivers.

Item 55 comprises 3 bundles; 111 pages of typescript and handwritten research notes, consisting of loose papers and 2 soft covered notebooks. [Refer to Series 788, Item 06, entitled 'Field Notebook E1' for original field notes].

Bundle 1: Gamilaray. Kinship systems, sections and drawings; Moiety; Totemism; Languages, texts and translations, from Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal; Geographical location, referencing surrounding language groups Yugambal and Nganyaywana. Including one page of notes on the Kogai system.

Pages 8 – 9 cites [RH] Mathews.

Pages 10 – 11 cites Rev. William Ridley.

Bundle 2: Kogai and Yuwaalayaay-Euahlayi. Kinship systems, sections and drawings; Moiety; Totemism; languages, texts and translations, from Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal, referencing surrounding language groups [Wiriyaraay, Gamilaraay, Ngiyampaa].

Bundle 3: The front cover of the notebook has C55a circled in blue pencil, and at the first page is a note entitled "Kamilaroi. Wiradjuri Group" - Radcliffe-Brown cites from Mitchell and Mathews the definitions of 'tribe' and 'country of a horde'; followed by typescript and handwritten draft articles which appear to be created from the research notes from Bundles 1 and 2. The articles are headed “Wongaibon”, “Kamilaroi”, “Yualai”, “Murawari” regarding social organisation; kinship systems; sections and drawings; Moiety; Totemism; languages, texts and translations from Aboriginal to non-Aboriginal; map showing geographical location, referencing surrounding language groups, Southern Murray Basin and S.E. Province (Southern Portion). A 'Weilwan' map is not accompanied by an article.

Reference to Howitt and Mathews.