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Title: Correspondence from R.L. Kirk to Professor R.M. Berndt
Description: Correspondence from R.L. Kirk to Professor R.M. Berndt (Department of Anthropology, University of Western Australia) (14/2/1969) requesting Berndt's and Catherine's advice regarding the people of Elcho Island from a biological point of view. Kirk wants to understand to what extent they are differentiated from neighbouring groups and also to what extent there is further sub-differentiation biologically within the group. He acknowledges the term, Wulamba, used by the Berndts for the people of north-east Arnhem Land and proposes to use it to refer collectively to the people of Elcho Island, ie those speaking the Murngic group of languages. Therefore Kirk now faces the problem of whether it is possible to discriminate within Wulamba smaller units which are more or less distinct biologically
Date: 14/2/1969
Control: 02B-33-013
Rights: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Correspondence, 1966 - 1973, 02B-33; National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Details