This item includes the following:

• two annotated typescript copies of 'Initiation Ceremonies among the Natives of Ooldea'
  
  
• a typescript and carbon copy journal extracts
  
  
• annotated typescript article 'Natives at Ooldea' published in 'The Advertiser' on 29 December 1934
  
  
• a newspaper clipping
  
  
• correspondence including a letter from Daisy Bates (see AA 23) to Edward Stirling (see AA 309) (20.1.1916) and another addressed to Herbert Hale (see AA 124) from Annie Lock (see AA 184)
  
  
• report
  
  
• map in sections
  
  
• receipt for 10 pounds for the expedition
  
  
• Daisy Bates's typescript article on 'Cannibalism and Aborigines'
  
  
• three exercise books of rough notes taken on the expedition
  
  
• WH Douglas's 'Illustrated Topical Dictionary of the Western Desert Language', dated July 1959
  
  
• Daisy Bates's handwritten 'Vocabularies, Tribal or Local Group Names (with their meanings), Waterholes, Personal Names etc., of West Coast Aborigines, S.A.'. The latter item includes Adelaide tribe words from Ivaritji