Notes for an article entitled 'A relic of the past' on the Aborigines of the Wellington Valley, New South Wales and the discovery of a breastplate belonging to Oombejang Watson, missionary stockman / William Robertson

DLDOC 155

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960052

1 folder of textual material (6 p.) - manuscript, carbon typescript

William Robertson, d. 1932 spent his youth in the Rockhampton district of Queensland where he acquired an intimate knowledge of Aboriginal customs. He was one of the very few white men to go through all bora circle ceremonies and was given the tribal name Brin-ga. During 1920s, he gave a series of broadcasts on Aborigines and in 1928, his Brin-ga's cov-ee [i.e. coo-ee] talks was published, based on the series.

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MLDOC folder

Carbon typescript with manuscript annotations.

Compiled from the Manuscripts DLDOCs as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012

Spencer List number: Sp. 5822

Transferred from Spencer List to DLDOCs

This breastplate was presented to the Australian Museum (cat. No. E54396) by Sir William Dixson, 5 December 1951