Point McLeay register |
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| Title : | Point McLeay register |
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| Creator : | Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission | ||
| Source : | PRG 698/1/1 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1857-1966 | ||
| Format : | Manuscript | ||
| Dimensions : | 340 x 220 x 35 | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
In 1859 the Aborigines' Friends' Association established a mission on the shores of Lake Alexandrina in the country of the Ngarrindjeri people of the Lower Murray. George Taplin, the Congregational minister, was its first administrator. Taplin took a more enlightened attitude to the customs of the Aboriginal people than many Europeans, and recorded much of their language and customs. His dedication to this work contributed to his early death in 1879, aged 47. The register kept by George Taplin began as a list of those connected with the mission 'by employment or instruction'. It records the names of many of the people who are also referred to in Taplin's journals. Names well-known in the Aboriginal community - including Unaipon, Sumner, Gollan, Tripp and Rankine - appear in the register. |
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| Related names : | Gollan family Rankine family Sumner family Taplin, George, 1831-1879 Tripp family Unaipon family Ngarrindjeri (Australian people) Aborigines' Friends' Association (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Coverage year : | c.1857- |
| Period : | 1852-1883 |
| Place : | Point McLeay (S. Aust.) |
| Region : | Riverland and Murraylands |
| Further reading : | Aborigines' Friends' Association. Society records, SRG 139 'The Aboriginal Mission Station at Point MacLeay' [sic],Adelaide observer, 9 January 1904, p. 26 Beaumont, Edith Gertrude. Personal papers, PRG 186 Bury, Warren R. The foundation of the Point McLeay Aboriginal Mission [thesis], 1964 Jenkin, Graham. Conquest of the Ngarrindjeri, Point McLeay, S. Aust.: Raukkan Publishers, [1995] Mattingley, Christobel and Hampton, David, ed.s Survival in our own land: 'Aboriginal' experiences in 'South Australia' since 1836, Adelaide, S. Aust.: Wakefield Press, 1988 Taplin, George. The Narrinyeri: an account of the tribes of South Australian Aborigines inhabiting the country around the Lakes Alexandrina, Albert and Coorong, and the lower part of the River Murray: their manners and customs, also an account of the mission at Point McLeay, Adelaide: J.T. Shawyer, 1874 |
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