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Walmbaria (QLD)

Archive Collections / Language Groups / Walmbaria (QLD)
Location: On the islands of the Flinders group and on extensive reefs north of Princess Charlotte Bay visiting the mainland only at Bathurst Head and Cape Melville on sufferance.
Co-ordinates: 144°15'E x 14°10'S
Area: 50 sq. m. (130 sq. km.)
References: Roth, 1910; Tindale, 1927 MS, 1940; Hale and Tindale, 1933.
Alternative Names: Walmbar, Yalnga-bar (Yalnga = Cape Melville).
Inventory Listings
Item AA 338/1/4 - 'Journal of a Museum Trip to Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland by Norman B. Tindale. Nov. 1926 - March 1927. Adelaide, S.A'.
Item AA 338/1/15/1 - 'Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938-1939. Journal and notes by Norman B. Tindale. I.'
Item AA 338/1/37 - 'Norman B. Tindale. Barrinean Journal 1938 and Visit to Palm Island 1963.'
Item AA 338/15/41 - 'Queensland Showing Land Tenure 1937. Sheet 2.'
Item AA 338/18/09 - Mitchell River (3111)
Item AA 338/18/10 - Cooktown (3112)
Item AA 338/39/55 - 'CAMP Wet season temporary shelter Worec Beach'
Item AA 338/39/67 - 'CAMP Endaen Rockshelter Stanley I., Qu. viewed from N side'
Item AA 338/39/88 - 'CANOE Walmbaria man on Flinders Island'
Item AA 338/42/368 - 'MANGROVES Flinders I., Qu .'
Item AA 338/43/177 - 'FISHING'
Item AA 338/49/71 - 'SPEARTHROWER Walmbaria Tribe
Item AA 338/49/415 - 'HUT Walmbaria Tribe Stanley I. Qu'
Item AA 338/49/416 - 'CANOE Walmbaria Tribe Flinders I., Qu."
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