Archival Resources Details

Edgar Ravenswood Waite - Records

Title
Edgar Ravenswood Waite - Records
Repository
South Australian Museum Archives
Reference
A.D. 33
Date Range
1902 - 1918
Description

Diary of an expedition to Cooper's Creek 1916; personal journal kept during the North Western Pacific Islands Expedition 1918 entitled 'Anthropological Journal to the Islands of New Guinea' (typescript copy 79 pages, with a manuscript catalogue of photographs 13 pages); bibliography 1890 of papers written by Waite; 2 letters dated 1912 and 1913; photographic albums of Lord Howe Island 1902 and of an expedition to Macquarie, Auckland and Stewart Islands and an expedition to Cockatoo Island 1914; photographs of Waite's expeditions [A.D. 33].

Formats
Photographs
Access
Available for reference

People

EOAS ID: archives/BSAR01798.htm

This Edition: 2026 February - 1926 Centenaries
Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar - Late summer: late January to late March - season of eels
Reference: https://www.bom.gov.au/resources/indigenous-weather-knowledge/indigenous-seasonal-calendars/gariwerd-calendar#bom-anchor-list__item-kooyang-season-of-eels

Publisher: Swinburne University of Technology.

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