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Add. MS b/36/84
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Copy letter from A. W. Howitt to J. G. Frazer
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- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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Commissioners of Audit, Victoria. Melbourne. Dated 5 September 1899 - His daughter [Mary] agrees to Frazer's use of extracts from her work; discusses totemism, thinks the Intichiuma ceremonies were more widespread in Australia than now; Mrs Langen-Parker [Catherine Eliza Stow, who wrote using the name K. Langloh Parker?] lived where the Kamularoi class names existed; their old men who are sources, including William Berak, are now dying off.
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Lacunae in typescript filled in, in R. A. Downie's hand.
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- Howitt, Alfred William (1830–1908) anthropologist (Subject)
- Howitt, Mary Edith Boothby (1867-1936) daughter of Alfred William Howitt (Subject)
- Berak, William (fl c 1875-1899) elder of the Koori people (Subject)
- Stow, Catherine Eliza Somerville (1856-1940) collector of Aboriginal legends, pen name K. Langloh Parker (Subject)