• Entry type: Resource
  • Entry ID: AWH003323

Papers of Olive Muriel Pink

  • Repository AIATSIS Manuscript and Rare Books Collection
  • Date Range 1910 - 1966
  • Description

    398 items, and c.780 letters; Microfilmed as MF 210 Digitisation status: Partially digitised – with the exception of 1Ac16i – Diaries and note books, 1930-49 — 1Ba5 – Notes and word lists, mostly on social organization, including modes of address; marriage and kinship; disposal of body after death; illustrations with names of weapons, clothing and implements; notes on ground painting, 1Bc49 – Various notes and parts of manuscript drafts Map of country NW of Alice Springs, 1Cc1 – Correspondence [various 1931-39], 1I Maps, associated correspondence and notes 1933,1935, 1Pc Dried plants with information on use by Aborigines, 1Q6e Workers’ Educational Association of NSW [circular 1939]. Includes ethnographic material; data on culture; contact and living conditions of Aborigines, mainly Aranda and Warlpiri, with some Luridja, Arabanna and Pitjantjatjara material; correspondence and reports on Hermannsburg, Finke River, Mt Margaret, Tennant Creek, Aurukun, Oenpelli and Bathurst Island missions; notes on Ooldea; word-list from Yass, NSW; see finding aid for full details.

  • Quantity 24 boxes 1.9 m
  • Access Open access - reading. Closed copying & quotation Executive Director - Collections' permission. Not for Inter-Library Loan unless digitised.
  • Finding Aid https://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/catalogue_resources/ms_2368_papers_of_olive_murial_pink.pdf

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  • Primary Creator
    • Pink, Olive Muriel (1884 - 1975)