Letter from J Connelly (per Mrs J F Connelly) to Director South Australian Museum regarding a collection of Australian Ethnographical articles, Connelly writes that the lowest offer acceptable for the collection to be £85. He notes that 70% of the articles are representative of the tribes of South Western West Australia and a bigger protion of the balance are from the Eastern Goldfields and the Murchison Goldfields while a few of the articles are from the South Coast of Queensland and the Upper Darling River of NSW. Articles from South West of West Australia comprise spears (signle to 4 barbed types), mounted and unmounted tomahawks, shields, letter sticks, ceremony boards, boomerangs, baskets and native slippers.
People mentioned: AO Neville (Chief Protector of Aborigines WA), Tribes of South Western West Australia,
Places mentioned: Eastern Goldfields (WA), Murchison Gold Fields (WA), Upper Darling River (NSW), South Coast of Queensland,
Handwritten letter, 2 pages