Notebook C, 1960: Various Australian languages
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- O'Grady, G. N. (Geoffrey N.)
- See more items in
- Geoffrey N. O'Grady Papers
- Geoffrey N. O'Grady Papers / Series 1: Field Research
- Sponsor
- The digitization of portions of this collection was supported by a generous grant from the Arcadia Fund.
- Date
- 1960
- Container
- Box 2
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Geoffrey N. O'Grady Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Scope and Contents
- Nyangumarta and Warnman, some Ngulipartu, Nyikina (small vocabulary), and Jururru (even smaller). Index 1 -- Yinytyipanti sentences (NB spelling). 2 -- Nyaŋumada 'Tape 1' trancription fragment. 3-7 -- Short texts elicited via Family of Man (FM) photographs. Language not given, but probably Yinytyipanti. 8 -- Different language 'Ŋul' (Ŋuļipata? See later in the book). Also 'Wallal'—might be a person? 11-12 -- Text I 'Roebourne'—no language given. Transcription. 13-15 -- Text II 'Roebourne (Monty Hale)'—no language given. Transciption. 16 -- 'March 28 Recording.' Transciption? Language not identified. 23-29 -- Ŋuļipata days of the week—English loans.'Albert re 1944 German Film'—Tape transcipt? Language not identified. 29 -- Start of a new text? Writing much neater than previously. 32 -- 'Messages for Hedland.' 33 -- 'Odd items recorded on slips of paper and now re-entered here,' in Ŋuļipata. 'Nyikina recorded from truck driver 100 miles SE of Langi Crossing on Sat, 9/4/60.' 34 -- Kitya (Gidja) vocabulary items recorded at Louisa Downs [station, Fitzroy Valley] on 10/4/60. Ŋaļuma notes of KH [Ken Hale]. Nyaŋ (Inland) notes of KH. Nyaŋ (Inland) notes of GOG 30 miles SW of [Port] Hedland 36 -- 'List of 20 sentences devised by KLH [Ken Hale] and GOG for purposes of obtaining a minimal sample for morphological analysis.' 37-38 -- 'Malkana recorded by GOG from Billy Weir …. [indecipherable] at Ajana, about 18/3/1960.' 39 -- KLH and GOG's 20 sentences recorded in Wadjari (Wajarri) by GOG from Sally …. At Booloogooroo about 20/3/1960 (at 5 pm, cool reception). Then '<Walypili not < Sally.' 41 -- 'Solitary sentence volunteered by Algie Patterson in TyuruRu or Tyuru at Winning Pool, March 1960.' 42 -- Draft of a letter to Ralph Piddington [the anthropologist??] from La Grange Oct 11, 1967 about dual kin terms in Nyaŋumarda and Karadjeri. 44-47 -- Missing (torn from book). 48-49 -- Notes for a talk to Susan Kaldor's class [at UWA], Fr. July 7, 1967. 40-61 -- Missing. 62 -- Samples from Nyaŋ played at UWA 7/7/1967.
- Collection Restrictions
- The collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512911319-1503512911340-5
- Metadata Usage
- CC0