Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA)

Folder titled: 'ASOPA [Australian School of Pacific Administration] and contains the following:

Bundle 1 (13pp): Research notes - 'Leichhardt' most likely notes taken of 'Journal of an overland expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845' by Ludwig Leichhardt. 544 pages.

Bundle 2 (9pp): Notes on Aborigines from Historical Records of Australia - 1801-1843. [not Elkin's handwriting].

Bundle 3 (6pp): Typescript index to 'Attitude to the Aborigines', bibliographic references arranged by date.

Bundle 4 (2pp): Outline of lectures for ASOPA 1970 and 1971.

Bundle 5 (10pp): Notes on social issues in the Northern Territory and Western Australia and a rough timeline of events. The notes start on p 3b, pp 1-3, 3a missing.

Bundle 6 (10pp): Notes on adaptation, rituals, symbols and philosophy. Many Language Groups are mentioned including the Arrernte, Ungarinyin and Luritja.

Bundle 7 (3pp): Notes on mythology; reference to the Djangkawu myth; The Moon-bone; excerpts from Berndt, World of the First Australians, Laragia lament for country, Mudbara Sacred Dulngulg cycle, Ngalia tribe - part of the Wadi Gudjara cycle.

Bundle 8 (8pp): Notes on totemism, role of totemism, and taken from Berndt: Social Behaviour - Ubar - whistling.

Bundle 9 (6pp): Notes - 'Wilkinson's South Australia, 1848', re Social life and customs and first contact.

1 newscutting: The Housing of Namatjira, letter to the Editor by Michael Sawtell, Sydney, Sydney Morning Herald

May 10/1960.

Bundle 10 (4pp): 'Summary. Native Reaction to an Invading Culture and its Bearers - with special reference to Australia'.

Bundle 11 (3pp): 1973 Department of Aboriginal Affairs, Northern Territory Division, Darwin, Circular Memorandum No. 130 of 1972/73 re Synthesis of Reports - Seminar of Administrators in Aboriginal Affairs, March 1973, a synthesis of three reports prepared by syndicates at the seminar looking at Guidelines for Future Policy and Implications.

Bundle 12: (8pp) Notes from Historical Records of Australia - Series 1, possibly taken by Vere Hole; Bundle 13 (11pp): various loose notes: bibliographic references; /p> Bundle 14 (3pp): Course notes for WEA anthropology classes - tutor Dr AP Elkin - Lecture 16: Medicine-Men, their making and function and Lecture 18: Death and What follows; course outline for Assimilation of Aborigines - A Challenge.<

The world of the first Australians : an introduction to the traditional life of the Australian Aborigines / by Ronald M. Berndt and Catherine H. Berndt.