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Names

Name PrimaryThe Walter Edmund Roth Collection of Queensland Aboriginal Artefacts 1894-1904

IDs

ID LocalAM0023

ID Urihttp://australianmuseum.net.au/journalfinder?type=2&title=&author=&year=&keyword=Khan&x=34&y=15

Descriptions

Brief DescriptionThis collection of about 2,200 artefacts is the most extensive collection of its kind assembled and documented by English physician and anthropologist Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933) in north-east Queensland.

Full DescriptionThe bulk of this collection was assembled during Roth's extensive travels and field observations in the last few years of the 19th century and the first few years of the 20th century. Roth worked in Queensland in various roles, chiefly as Medical Officer and Protector of Aborigines. Roth had a keen interest in evidence rather than theory. During his fieldwork he conducted extensive ethnographic studies supplemented by the large collection of artefacts. His observations were published in eighteen bulletins in Queensland Parliamentary Papers and the Records of the Australian Museum, covering the various aspects of Aboriginal cultures, predominantly in north-east Australia.

Extensive catalogues of this collection were published by the Australian Museum between 1993 and 2004
http://australianmuseum.net.au/journalfinder?type=2&title=&author=&year=&keyword=Khan&x=34&y=15

AccessAustralian Museum

Subjects

localAboriginal culture; Ethnography; Indigenous artefacts

scotIndigenous Australian peoples

person_orgWalter Edmund Roth

Coverage Spatial

TextNorth-East Queensland, Australia

Coverage Temporal

From1894

To1904

Dates

Date Record Updated2012-05-30 23:41

Date Created in MME2011-03-14 13:22