Party: POPE, Kathleen.
Summary
Manuscript. An examination of the material culture of south-eastern Cape York Peninsula, based on the Roth Ethnographic Collection at the Australian Museum Sydney. Manuscript of Diploma of Anthropology Thesis, University of Sydney, 1967, diagrams, tables, maps, typescript, pp.168. Principal concern is material culture, but includes notes on bibliography of Roth, also early European contact in N.E. North Queensland, gold discovery and entry of Chinese and Europeans. The establishment of missions, Bloomfield River, Yarrabah, Mona Mona and Palm Island. Outlines destructive influence of racial contact, including the effects on Aborigines of opium and venereal disease. Bibliography, 28 plates, tribal areas mapped. A.I.A.S. MS.656.