Biographical entry: Roth, Walter Edmund (1861 - 1933)

Born
1861
Died
1933

Summary

North Queensland Ethnography Bulletins, 1901-1906. A collection of published reports, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 1901-1906, collected by Dr Bertram, Exeter, South Australia. Letter to Dr Bertram from W.E. Roth, Cooktown, 16 June 1902, inserted in front cover. Newspaper extracts and a photograph of an extinct emu skeleton from Kangaroo Island. The articles concern food, games, music, dancing, domestic implements, superstition, magic, medicine, sexual history and notes on government, morals and crime; they are illustrated. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM A.D.28.