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This item is an incomplete photocopy of 'A report to the Under-Secretary, Home [Department] on the Aboriginals of the Pennyfather (Coen) River Districts, and other costal tribes occupying the country between the Batavia & Embley Rivers [visited by the Minister during his last trip] by Walter E Roth NPA [Northern Protector of Aboriginies, see AA 271],' dated 8 January 1900.

This item contains the reports title page (p.418), one page of the report (p.427), a synopsis table of anthropometric measurements (p.428) followed by anthropometric and sociological data charts (pp.513-662) on fifty Australian Aboriginal people, as well as two pages written by NB Tindale (see AA 338) presenting the item to JB Birdsell. There is a total of 155 pages.

Fifty individuals were recorded at the following localities in Queensland: Cooktown, Yarrabah, Bellenden Kerr Mission, Musgrave, Palmer, Mapoon. These individual's locate their birth in the following locations / regions: Johnstone River, Cape Melville, Palm Islands, Charters Towers, Coen, Mareeba, 'Middle Batavia River,' Boggy Creek, Barrow Point, Chillagoe, Herberton, Cape Grafton, Jack River Country, Bloomfield River; Coastal-line between Norman and Mitchell Rivers, Lynd River, Pennyfather River, Mapoon.

There is a corresponding incomplete set of 19 photographs of the indivudals recorded in this research (see AA 689/9/4/3/1/131-149).