Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1899 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 file
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born in England, and arrived in South Australia at the age of six. Early in life he became associated with the Methodist Church in South Australia, and was later chosen for church and school work in connection with the Aboriginal reserve at Cape Barren Island, a position which he retained for 7½ years.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
'The Furneaux Islands, their early settlement and some characteristics of their inhabitants'· by Edward William Stevens, State School teacher and catechist, 1790-1899.
Written for for the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1899. Handwritten article described as being compiled 'from a diary and notes written during many years residence in the islands and compiled at the request of the Right Rev. H. H. Montgomery, Bishop of Tasmania, Launceston, October 16th 1899
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
This material is made available for personal research and study purposes under the University of Tasmania Standard Copyright Licence. For any further use permission should be obtained from the copyright owners. For assistance please contact Special.Collections@utas.edu.au
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
Photograph Edward Stephens, school master, and his family in front of the Cape Barren Island school house and dwelling. https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/1268397
Publication note
The struggle for recognition: Part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the Nineteenth Century
Lyndall Ryan, Aboriginal History Vol. 1 1977
http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p176601/pdf/article02.pdf
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
Genre access points
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
HE May2020