• Title
  John Francis Huon Mitchell Aboriginal Dictionary, Woradgery Tongue, 1906
• Creator
  J. F. H. (John Francis Huon) Mitchell, 1831-1923
• Call number
  C 97
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1906
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  1133800
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 volume of textual material and photographs - printed, typescript (34 pages) :
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  John F.H. Mitchell was a pastoralist, whose French grandfather Gabriel Marie Louis Huon de Kerilleau settled in Australia with his wife Louisa, arriving with the 102nd Regiment on the Second Fleet. He had fled to England following the fall of the Bourbons, and it was later discovered that he was member of the French royal family. Huon's only daughter married Captain Thomas Mitchell with whom she had four sons including John F.H. Mitchell. Following Captain Mitchell's death his widow moved to the Murray River with her children. As a lad John F.H. Mitchell mixed with the Waradgery, a Murray River tribe, and acquired a knowledge of their language. Later in life he resided at 'Ravenshoe', Ravenswood, Victoria.
• Scope and Content
  Full title: 'Aboriginal Dictionary (Woradgery Tongue) of Birds, Beasts, Fishes etc, Weapons and Timber also Customs and Ceremonies of The Tribe' by J.F.H. Mitchell, Albury, 1906. Also includes two typescript inserts:
  1. Corroboree Song; War Song; Song When in Grief; War Song No. 2; Odd Bits by Boys!
  2. Woradgery or Weri-Weri tribal names, male and female.
  3. Photograph of 'Brisbane Meadow', near Goulburn (built 1814) and photographs (copies) of John F.H. Mitchell, his mother and three brothers.
• Language
  Australian languages, Wiradjuri language D10, English
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information transferred from Short Catalogue (typed) as part of eREcords Project, 2001-2012
• General note
  
  Wiradjuri language (D10) (NSW SI55-07)
  (accessed February 2014)
  Microfilm at CY 1650, frames 1-33
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed on first page: 'From John F. Huon Mitchell "Ravenshoe", Oct. 16. 1906 to his Wife, Louisa Drury. Presented to the Mitchell Library Sydney, June 6. 1913 by Louisa Drury Mitchell "Ravenshoe", Ravenswood, Victoria.'
• Subject
  Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project, 2011-
  Australian languages--New South Wales--Vocabulary.
  Aboriginal Australians--Languages--Vocabulary.
  Aboriginal Australians--Names.
  Aboriginal Australians--Victoria--Social life and customs.
  Aboriginal Australians--Western Australia--Languages.
  Aboriginal Australians--Rites and ceremonies.
  Aboriginal Australians--Dictionaries.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE6147945

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