Correspondence and Notes Relating to the Publication of the Wandjina Mythology

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Working notes and correspondence between Coate and Elkin relating to the publication of the Wandjina mythology.

Elkin congratulates Coate on the completion of the dictionary (letter dated 26/3/1969). ? Coate, HHJ and AP (Adolphus Peter) Elkin, Ngarinjin-English Dictionary (University of Sydney, 1974).

Elkin mentions in a letter to Coate, dated 31/05/1974 that he knew Friday Budbadin 1928 and that he appears in his geneaology book. (See REF-00088851: Genealogy Notebook VIII, Walcott Inlet, Unarinyin. The Kimberley, Western Australia, University of Sydney Archives.