DSpace Community:https://hdl.handle.net/2440/787172024-03-29T09:30:39Z2024-03-29T09:30:39ZLetter to F.W.Eardley 29/7/31https://hdl.handle.net/2440/812912014-09-17T05:17:29Z2013-11-27T00:00:00ZTitle: Letter to F.W.Eardley 29/7/31
Abstract: DBs letter 29/7/31 to FW Eardley, Registrar of the University of Adelaide, confirming that the U of A is now the repository of Central Australian aboriginal material. She states that she is ill but managing with help of the railway dining room to obtain food. She explains her ‘equipment’ and qualifications for collecting the vocabularies she has sent via Professor Fitzherbert to the University and recommends them as a basis for future field research. Her unpublished work on the History of the Native tribes of Western Australia, researched over 12 years, also contains much of interest for South Australia and other states as the state borders were not recognised by the aborigines and the new railways facilitated travel among groups in east and west. DB hopes that there will be a High Commissioner to ensure that the passing of the Australian aborigines will be as happy as possible. The Nullarbor Plain should become a planted ‘memorial’ so that future generations will have better memories of ‘these dreadful cannibals’.2013-11-27T00:00:00ZLetter to Fitzherbert 5/4/32 and vocabularieshttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/812902014-09-17T05:12:08Z2013-11-27T00:00:00ZTitle: Letter to Fitzherbert 5/4/32 and vocabularies
Abstract: Daisy Bates sends Prof. J.A. Fitzherbert 11 pages of vocabulary from informants Gauera (f) and Bijarda (m) from north and west of Eucla, showing some similarities with Bibbulmun words and differences and connections with Eucla, Bight and north of Eucla.2013-11-27T00:00:00ZLetter to Fitzherbert 9/11/31 and vocabularieshttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/812892014-09-17T05:15:41Z2013-11-27T00:00:00ZTitle: Letter to Fitzherbert 9/11/31 and vocabularies
Abstract: Eucla vocabulary (Jinyila wongga) 29 p. from several informants and 13 pages of miscellaneous notes, including a Eucla pedigree, songs, names of some Eucla natives and their waters, to complete Daisy Bates’ survey of vocabulary of SW edge of the Nullarbor Plain. There are some Bibbulmun words from the west, north and north east. People from Bight Head (Ilgamba) and Eucla (Jinyila) have, since white settlement, intermarried. There are accounts of cousin marriages and some physical deformities that result. DB expresses the need for a British gentleman to be High Commissioner of Australian aborigines, free of party and political restraint.2013-11-27T00:00:00ZLetter to Fitzherbert, 13/9/31 and Vocabularieshttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/807082014-09-17T05:07:39Z2013-11-06T00:00:00ZTitle: Letter to Fitzherbert, 13/9/31 and Vocabularies
Abstract: This letter describes the informant Wingarri and his language Wongaii wongga, the effects of cannibalism on the laws of the Bibbulmun groups, the decline and extinction of the Bibbulmun since white settlement and the impossibility of translating Christian texts into any of the languages or dialects DB has collected. She mentions Dunan wongga, a unique dialect near Capel River that no other people appear to understand. DB discusses the pronunciation of the vocabulary she has collected, and further, the social organisation and breakdown of the marriage laws she has observed and written about in reports now hard to source. Her 2 stolen inmas were returned but she continues with the Coventry rule until a 3rd article is returned. She finally mentions the loss of inhabitants in the Centre now trekking to white settlements and notes that some natives have reported that there are very few still ‘behind’.2013-11-06T00:00:00Z