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Research material, notes and drafts

MS. Eng. c. 7865

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Title

Research material, notes and drafts

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. c. 7865

Summary

Comprises:

Photocopies of chapters on Walbiri iconography, Walbiri local organisation, and religious life in the Dreamtime from unidentified publication(s).

Paper 'Sand sculptures at a Gidjingali burial site' by Margaret Clunies and L.R. Hiatt from Form in indigenous art: Schematisation in the art of Aborginal Australia and prehistoric Europe (1977)

Notes on Rimbaud; Chinese agriculture; Shamanism; and Father Martin Gusinde, n.d.

Notes and quotations transcribed from Chatwin's moleskine diaries, n.d.

Notes on Bedouin and pilgrimage, n.d.

Notes on Gongora and nomads, n.d.

Notes on nemadi, n.d.

Quotations transcribed from Chatwin's moleskine diaries, n.d.

Notes on albatross and neck-bite of carnivores, n.d.

Notes on Arthur Rimbaud by Enid Starkie; Ariana, 'The Home of the Nobel Aryans'; 'The Valley Spirit' and Sung Painters; the Koran, 'The Written Word of God'; and India, n.d.

Reading notes on nomads, n.d.

Notes on 'The nomadic ideal', n.d.

Notes on 'The wandering Jew'; photocopy of paper 'A method of painting in the French manner; 'Niere du Sahal'; and 'Dakar Days', n.d.

Draft chapters on infant humans; on child-rearing of Yaghans; Aboriginals, Nemadi; and on rocking, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box

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Collection contents

Archive of (Charles) Bruce Chatwin

Papers concerning The Songlines

Material used for 'The Nomadic Alternative' and The Songlines

Research material, notes and drafts

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