Letter from Connelly to Director South Australian Museum

Archive Collections / Dr Norman Barnett Tindale / Series AA338/88 / Letter from Connelly to Director South Australian Museum

Letter from J Connelly (per Mrs J F Connelly) to Director South Australian Museum regarding a collection of Australian Ethnographical articles, Connelly writes that the lowest offer acceptable for the collection to be £85. He notes that 70% of the articles are representative of the tribes of South Western West Australia and a bigger protion of the balance are from the Eastern Goldfields and the Murchison Goldfields while a few of the articles are from the South Coast of Queensland and the Upper Darling River of NSW. Articles from South West of West Australia comprise spears (signle to 4 barbed types), mounted and unmounted tomahawks, shields, letter sticks, ceremony boards, boomerangs, baskets and native slippers.

People mentioned: AO Neville (Chief Protector of Aborigines WA), Tribes of South Western West Australia,

Places mentioned: Eastern Goldfields (WA), Murchison Gold Fields (WA), Upper Darling River (NSW), South Coast of Queensland,

Handwritten letter, 2 pages

CreatorDr Norman Barnett Tindale
ControlAA338/88/35
Date Range25 November, 1935  -  25 November, 1935
Quantity 0.1cm,   2   Pages
FormatsGeneral Correspondence
Series AA338/88