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The Caroline Tennant-Kelly Ethnographic Collection : Fieldwork Accounts of Aboriginal Culture in the 1930s
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'A team of anthropologists at UQ - Prof. David Trigger, Kim de Rijke, Tony Jefferies and Charmaine Jones - and former Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies Michael Williams recently produced a DVD which contains the digitised ethnographic records of Caroline Tennant-Kelly. These records from the 1930s were recently recovered Kim de Rijke and Tony Jefferies, and they have now been digitised and indexed for the benefit of native title researchers and Aboriginal communities. ' (Source: The University of Queensland website)
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Electronic resource
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The collection contains:
Folder 1 - User Guide and Introduction to the Collection
Folder 2 - Browse Collection:
Burnt Bridge - Kempsey 1936
Cherbourg 1934
Correspondence
Fraser Island 1932
Miscellaneous
Newspaper clippings
Photographs
Reports
Tilba Tilba 1936
Folder 3 - All Documents
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WARNING: This DVD contains images and names of deceased persons [which may be upsetting for some members of the indigenous community]. It also contains historical terminology that is no longer in common usage. (Source: TROVE)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
- Cherbourg, Murgon - Wondai area, Kingaroy - Murgon - Kilkivan - Woolooga area, Central West Queensland, Queensland,
- Burnt Bridge, Macleay River, Kempsey area, Mid North Coast, New South Wales,
- Fraser Island, Maryborough - Hervey Bay - Fraser Island area, Maryborough - Rockhampton area, Queensland,
- Wallaga Lake, Narooma - Bermagui area, Far South Coast, South Coast, New South Wales,
- Tilba Tilba, Narooma - Bermagui area, Far South Coast, South Coast, New South Wales,
- Kempsey, Kempsey area, Mid North Coast, New South Wales,
- 1929-1940
