IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 38
Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Title: CHAMP, W: Indigenous Australian vocabularies
Date(s): 1861-1862
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Champ | W | fl 1861-1866 | Colonel
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Unknown
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Two volumes of vocabularies of Indigenous Australian languages compiled by Col W Champ entitled 'Aboriginal vocabulary, comprising the Ballaarat, Bacchus Marsh, Melbourne and Gipps Land: dialects with a selection of dialogues and familiar phrases', 1861 (revised, 1862) and 'Supplement to the aboriginal vocabulary, comprising the Mount Gambien and Wonnin dialects', 1862, with a loose insert of a vocabulary of words having the same meaning in different parts of Australia by 'Mitchell', sent to Champ by Sir Edmond Burry.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English and Indigenous Australian languages
System of arrangement:
N/A
Conditions governing access:
Appointments are necessary for all visits; please contact the archivist by email to arrange; a fee of £10 is payable by all visitors except Fellows and Members; membership details can be found on the RAI web site; access to material referring to the most recent thirty years is restricted; some material is very fragile and may not be available for view; a few items are of restricted or forbidden access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies and scans for personal research only may be arranged at the discretion of the archivist; charges apply; in all cases forms governing use of copies must be signed; use of digital cameras is not allowed.
Finding aids:
Collection level description available in the Institute's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
The vocabularies were exhibited in the Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1866, by Col W Champ.
Immediate source of acquisition:
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: May 2008