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Queensland aboriginal dialects
| Title |
Queensland aboriginal dialects |
| Reference |
GBR/0115/RCMS 291
(former reference: MSS 85 V) |
| Creator |
Price, Charles, fl 1885 |
| Covering Dates |
circa 1885 |
| Extent and Medium |
1 volume; paper; The board and several pages are detached from the volume.; Manuscript |
| Repository |
Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library |
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| Content and context |
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Charles Price's background is not known.
The work has no formal title. It is comprised of an introductory note, 4 pages, headed 'Townsville Cleveland Bay, Queensland, August 31 1885', referring to the author's sixteen years' experience of dialects; 172 pages of vocabulary, with aboriginal words in alphabetical order on the left hand page, and English translations on the right; native songs and chants, the aboriginal version of the Lord's Prayer, etc., 4 pages; and notes on pronunciation, 2 pages.
Presented by the Executive Commissioners of Queensland at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1887.
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Access and Use
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Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Queensland aboriginal dialects, RCMS 291 |
| Further information |
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Donald H. Simpson, ed., 'The manuscript catalogue of the library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (London, 1975), p. 167. Indexed
This collection level description was created by RAS.
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| Index Terms |
| Australia |
| Oceania |
| Queensland |
| Price, Charles (fl 1885) |
| No further on-line information. |
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