Biographical entry: Roth, Walter Edmund
Summary
Reports of Queensland Aborigines, 1897-1900.
1. Report to Commissioner of Police, Queensland, by W.E. Roth, June 1898.
2. Report to Commissioner of Police, Queensland, by W.E. Roth, July 1898. Relating to Aborigines of Rockhampton and surrounding district, includes Aboriginal vocabularies.
3. Some ethnographical notes on the Atherton blacks by W.E. Roth, October 1898; with vocabularies.
4. Report to the Commissioner of Police, Queensland, by W.E. Roth, December 1898. Relates to the Aborigines occupying the hinterland of Princess Charlotte Bay; together with a preface containing suggestions for their better improvement and protection.
5. Report to the Commissioner of Police, Queensland, by W.E. Roth, December 1898. Outlines some of the plants of economic value to the coastal Aborigines of N.E. Queensland with notes on preparation, uses, native names etc.
6. Letter to the Commissioner of Police, Queensland, from Magdalen Mulum the Cape Bedford Mission, 1899.
7. Report to the Commissioner of Police, Queensland, by W.E. Roth, May 1899. An account of the Koko-minni Aboriginals occupying the country drained by the Middle Palmer River; with vocabularies.
8. Report to the Commissioner of Police, Queensland, by W.E. Roth April 1899. The rock paintings of Clack's Island.
9. Report to the Commissioner of Police, Queensland, by W.E. Roth June 1899. The initiation ceremony of the Kokoyimidir speaking Aborigines of the Cooktown area.
10. Report to the Commissioner of Police, Queensland, by W.E. Roth, January 1900. On the Aboriginals of the Pennefather (Coen) River District and other coastal tribes occupying the country between the Batavia and Embley Rivers; with vocabularies and anthropometric charts.
11A. Scientific report to the Under Secretary, Home Secretary's Office, Queensland, by W.E. Roth, September 1900. On the natives of the Lower Tully River: with an appendix.
11B. Appendix to the previous report, December 1900.
12. Report on the visit to the Wellesley Islands by W.E. Roth, from 11-27 June 1903.
13. Roth, Walter E. North Queensland Ethnography Bulletin 11-18. Microfilm. The Mitchell Library notes that the originals were returned to Brisbane and housed in the Queensland State Archives: QSA or the Oxley Memorial Library. MITCHELL: UNCAT.ML.MSS.216, positive reel CY.208.
Notes on the Ethnology of the Aborigines of the Bloomfield River District, 3 March, 1896. North Queensland Ethnography Bulletins, 7-9, 11-18, 1904-1906, with original drawings and photographs. MITCHELL: UNCAT.ML.MSS.A1331.