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[Letter from the General Secretary of the museum to A.O. Neville, Chief Protector of Aborigines, replying to a request from the Swedish Consul, Fremantle]

Record no:

1638

Author:

Neville, A. O. (Auber Octavius), 1876-1954

Year:

30 October 1919

Description:

1 p.

Subject:

Australian Aborigines - Material culture;
Australian Aborigines - Ethnography;
Australian Aborigines - Songs and music;

Notes:

The General Secretary is repling to earlier correspondence of 17 October 1919 from Neville who had received a request from the Swedish Consul in Fremantle to supply the Director of the Stockholm Museum with 'native musical instruments.'
The General Secretary states that he has no knowledge of any Aboriginal musical instruments of any kind in Western Australia.
He adds that the museum has none in its collection.
PDF available for WAM staff only.
See: File A13-73-1 Anthropology - Aboriginal cultural materials
SeeAlso: A13-73-1-113

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