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Title
Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory by John William Ogilvie Bennett, 1869, annotated by Paul Foelsche
Creator
John William Ogilvie Bennett
Call number
MLMSS 8070
Level of description
fonds
Date

1869-1870
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
933652
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - printed with manuscript annotations - 30 pages
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

This copy of a rare work on Aboriginal language was owned by Paul Foelsche, the Northern Territory's first police inspector. While he held that position from the 1870s to the 1890s, he also chronicled the township of Darwin and its people with a unique series of photographs. His images allow us to see the township of early Darwin, and the developments of the first railway and mine sites. He took beautifully composed pictures of the landscape, and sensitive portraits of more than 250 individuals of the indigenous Larakiah, Woolna (Djerimanga), Iwaidja and related peoples.

Reference:
Library correspondence file
Collection history
Owned by Paul Foelsche in 1870.
Scope and Content
A printed vocabulary or word list of the Aboriginal dialect of the Woolner district (Northern Territory) written by John William Ogilvie Bennett. Also known as the Woolna or Wulna Wuna language. Consisting of 30 pages, titled 'Vocabulary of the Woolner District Dialect, Adelaide River, Northern Territory', published in Adelaide by the Government Printer (W. C. Cox) in 1869. This copy is inscribed 'Paul Foelsche' on the cover, and 'Paul Foelsche 1870' on the title page, and is extensively annotated in Foelsche's hand throughout. It includes Larrakia place names added by Foelsche on p.28. Foelsche's annotations would have been made no earlier than 1870.
Language
Australian languages, Larrakia language N21, Wuna language N29
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

AIATSIS language, code and map grid reference:
Djerimanga / Wulna / Wuna language (N29) (NT SD52-04)
Larrakia / Laragiya / Gulumirrgin language (N21) (NT SD52-04)
(accessed February 2014)
Digital order no:Album ID : 1050916
Creator/Author/Artist
Foelsche, P. (Paul), 1831-1914
Subject
Aboriginal Australians--Languages.
Aboriginal Australians--Northern Territory--Woolner Station--Languages.
Aboriginal Australians--Northern Territory--Woolner Station--Vocabulary.
Wulna Wuna language--Vocabulary
Djerimanga language--Vocabulary
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project, 2011-
Larrakia language--Vocabulary.
Place
Woolner (N.T.)
Woolner Station (N.T.)
Adelaide River (N.T.)
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