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"The objective of this sub committee [i.e. Western Australian Aboriginal Dictionary Sub-committee] has been to extract from 19th century archival records the names of Aboriginals and present these in a form more accessible to Aboriginal family historians and the wider Australian community ... The material in this index is the raw material for later volumes" --Introduction.
