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SA Museum
SAMA
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Adelaide
South Australia
5000
Australia
The South Australian Museum offers visitors five floors of exhibits that reveal many fascinating stories. Exhibitions and displays reflect the museum’s extensive collections, including the Australian Aboriginal and Pacific Cultures collections. The Ancient Egyptian Room and the Giant Squid. The Museum houses over four million objects and specimens. They provide irreplaceable records against which we are constantly building and modifying our knowledge and understanding of the natural and cultural world. We enjoy an international reputation for the size and representation of our collections, as well as the breadth and quality of our scientific research.
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South Australian Museum
SAMA 45
Aboriginal Boomerang Collection
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Boomerangs
Aboriginal material culture
boomerang
Mid 19th Century to present
throwing stick
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Hunting
weapons
Boomerangs
Hunting and gathering tools
3000 Aboriginal boomerangs from all regions of Australia
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
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Australia
1845
1855
SAMA 15
Aiston Collection
George 'Poddy' Aiston (1879-1943)
Aiston
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Photography
Aboriginal artefacts
Australian Aboriginal material culture
axe
bag
Bags
basket
boomerang
Ceremonial objects
club
container
cordage
early 20th century
fire-making
George Aiston
Glover
knife
material
medical
message
musical instrument
narcotic
ornament
Photographs
plume
shield
sorcery
spear
spear-thrower
toy
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Ceremonial objects
Drugs
Indigenous medicine
musical instruments
Photography
sorcery
Toys
Anthropological specimens
Ceremonial objects
Containers
Edged Weapons
Personal adornments
Photographs
Projectile weapons
tools
Toys
weapons
Charles R.J. Glover
George 'Poddy' Aiston
Lady Glover
Mabel Aiston
More than 230 Aboriginal artefacts collected by mounted police-trooper, ethnographer and store-keeper George Aiston.
George Aiston (1879-1943) developed an interest in ethnography during his posting to the west coast of South Australia following his return from the Boer War. This interest deepened after his transfer to Mungeranie, on the Birdsville Track, and he began documenting material culture processes with photography, and gathered ethnographic and stone tool collections for museums and private collectors following his retirement from the police force ca. 1913, when he established a small museum at his Birdsville Track general store at Mulka, south of Mungeranie. He supplied most of the text and illustrations for Savage Life in Central Australia (Macmillan, London), co-authored with George Horne, 1924. Aiston's collecting interests extended to guns, edged weapons and armour, a collection largely preserved at the South Australian Museum, together with his Australian ethnographic material.
Out of copyright
Out of copyright
These artefacts were separately donated to the museum, by Aiston's widow (Mabel Aiston) and Glover, Lady; from estate of Charles R.J. Glover; Charles R.J. Glover (1870 - 1936) Mayor of Adelaide (1917 - 1919), Lord Mayor (1923 - 1925, & 1930 - 1933). His son, Sir John Glover later held the same office (1960 - 1963). His collection includes items from the Chewings & Aiston Collections. Further information may be found in specimen document files. Related collection notes and external related collections: Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives collections (AA3), including correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings. Aiston ethnographic material is also held in the National Museum of Australia, Australian Museum (Sydney) and the Brisbane Museum. For ADB entry see: Philip Jones, 'Aiston, George (Poddy) (1879 - 1943)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, p. 18: http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130021b.htm
Mungeranie
Mulka
Cooper Creek
Birdsville
Lake Eyre district
Birdsville Track South Australia.
Kanowana
1912
1943
SAMA 35
Allen's Cave
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
stone tools
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Excavations (Archaeology)
tools
Allen's cave
archaeological excavation
archaeology
Excavation Assemblage
Owl pellet deposition
stone tools
Lubljon Marun
Rhys Jones
Scott Cane
stone tools
Allen's Cave yielded stone tools and an enormous quantity of animal bone, but little of this relates to Indigenous occupation of the site, having been accumulated through owl pellet deposition and mammalian predator activity. Occupation at this site commences at 39,500 years ago and continued until the recent past. Lubljon Marun undertook the first excavation at this site as part of his doctoral research (ANU, Canberra) in the early 1960s and was followed by Rhys Jones and Scott Cane in 1988/89. Allen's Cave is the oldest and best dated cave site in South Australia and is amongst the oldest occupation site in Australia.
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
'Taphonomic analysis of the vertebrate assemblage from Allen's Cave; implications for Australian arid zone archaeology' (1994) PhD thesis, ANU, by Keryn Walshe.
Allen's Cave
Nullarbor Plain, western margin of South Australia
39500 BP
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AA 640
Anthony Gladstone Bolam (AA 640)
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Aboriginal peoples
Photography
Railway lines
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
photographers
Photography
railway sidings
Anthony Bolam
Nullarbor fauna
Nullarbor flora
Nullarbor geology
Ooldea Siding
transcontinental trains
Photographs
The Bolam collection in the South Australian Museum Archives comprises photographs that Anthony Bolam took at Ooldea between 1920 to 1925.
Born in 1893, Anthony Bolam was the Station Master at Ooldea Siding on the Trans-Australian Railway from 1920 to 1925. Bolam was a keen photographer, and took many photographs of the Australian Aboriginal people, some of which were included in his book 'The Trans-Australian Wonderland'. He died in 1966. This collection consists of photographs taken by Bolam at Ooldea while he was Station-master at Ooldea Siding. The photographs include some of the Aboriginal people who gathered at Ooldea Siding, some of Ooldea Siding and the transcontinental trains and others of the flora, fauna and geology of the Nullarbor Plain. Some of the photographs of Aboriginal people have detailed captions by Bolam providing personal details (eg totem and place of origin) of the individuals shown. The collection also includes seven small cardboard cards with hand-written captions by Bolam. These cards, according to Bolam's grand-nephew, were prepared for a display of Bolam's photographs at a local Victorian school. The photographs to which the captions relate evidently show Aboriginal weapons and ceremonial objects. These photographs are not in the South Australian Museum collection.
The Museum Board of South Australia
The Museum Board of South Australia
Ooldea, South Australia
Nullarbor, South Australia
Ooldea Siding, South Australia
1918
1995
SAMA 38
Arcoona Collection
Ron Hewitt Collection
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
stone tools
tools
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
tools
archaeology
Arcoona
chert tools
lithics
stone adzes
Ron Hewitt
stone tools
tools
Numerous chert small tools collected from the Arcoona region (Woomera) by amateur archaeologist Ron Hewitt. Whilst based at Woomera, Ron established a keen interest in Indigenous prehistoric occupation. Having met and been encouraged by Walter MacDougall, he began collecting, describing and curating lithics from Arcoona. In 1976 he published a paper on a hoard of stone adzes. Ron gave much of his time and expertise voluntarily to staff at the museum from the 1970s to 90s and has donated a good deal of his collection to the South Australian Museum. The collection is a very valuable expression of the use of fine grained material from a semi arid environment.
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'Aboriginal adze stone hoards found on the Arcoona Plateau, near Woomera South Australia' (1976) by Ron Hewitt, Australian Archaeology Vol 4(14-52).
Arcoona Plateau
Woomera, South Australia
1990
1999
SAMA 50
Australian Aboriginal Bark Painting Collection
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19th Century to present
Aboriginal material culture
Arnhem Land
bark
Bentinck Island
Crocodile Island
Croker Island
Elcho island
Field Island
Goulburn Island
Goyder River
Groote Eylandt
Maningrida
Melville Island
Milingimbi
Mornington Island
Northern Territory
Oenpelli
Painting
Port Keats
Ramingining
Yirrkala
Aboriginal art
Aboriginal peoples
bark painting
Aboriginal art
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Bark paintings
paintings
Bark paintings
Approximately 530 Aboriginal bark paintings from the Northern Australian coastal region
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
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Mornington Island
Milingimbi
Elcho island
Crocodile Island
Croker Island
Maningrida
Port Keats
Bentinck Island
Goyder River
Ramingining
Oenpelli
Melville Island
Field Island
Yirrkala
Arnhem Land
Goulburn Island
Groote Eylandt
Northern Australian coastal region
Northern Territory
1800
1899
SAMA 48
Barunguan Collection
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Aboriginal material culture
Barunguan
Flinders Island
H.M. Hale
N. B. Tindale
Port Stewart
Queensland
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Herbert Hale
Norman Tindale
291 Aboriginal artefacts of the Barunguan group of Queensland
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
Collected by Hale, H.M. & Tindale, N.B.; South Australian Museum; Museum Expedition. Further information may be found in specimen document files. Related Collection notes: Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives collections
Queensland
Queensland
Port Stewart
Flinders Island
1927
1927
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AA 346
Board for Anthropological Research (AA 346)
BAR
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Aboriginal culture
anthropologists
expeditions
films
minutes
rites & ceremonies
Songs
Aboriginal languages
Aboriginal peoples
Australian art
Crayon drawing
Anthropological specimens
Archives
Documents
Drawings
Genealogical documents
Movie film
Photographs
Board for Anthropological Research
Twentieth Century
The collection of the Board of Anthropological research in the South Australian Museum Archives comprises: minutes; drafts and proofs of publications; papers related to expeditions; data cards; genealogies; photographic prints and negatives; crayon drawings; and film. Material dates from 1923 to 1966.
The Board for Anthropological Research (BAR) sponsored over forty anthropological expeditions to study Australian Aboriginal people in the five decades following its establishment in 1926. Although the work of the Board was focussed on physical anthropology, the expeditions also resulted in research across a range of fields, such as linguistics and botany, and also broader aspects of anthropology, including the documentation of social organisation, tribal/language boundaries and songs and ceremony. The records of the Board for Anthropological Research, and related collections held in the South Australian Museum Archives, contain detailed information in a range of formats about many Australian Aboriginal groups and individuals. The Board for Anthropological Research dissolved in 1975.
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Some material is still in copyright to the Museum Board of South Australia
Victoria, Australia
New South Wales, Australia
Tasmania, Australia
Northern Territory, Australia
Western Australia, Australia
Australia
South Australia, Australia
1923
1966
SAMA 19
Carl Strehlow Collection
Pastor Carl Friedrich Theodor Strehlow (1871-1922)
Strehlow
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Aboriginal material culture
axe
bag
Bags
basket
boomerang
Carl Strehlow
Ceremonial objects
club
container
cordage
fire-making
food
knife
material
medical
message
musical instrument
narcotic
ornament
pigment
plume
shield
sorcery
spear
spear-thrower
tools
toy
Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
food
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Ceremonial objects
Drugs
Indigenous foods
Indigenous medicine
musical instruments
Pigments
sorcery
Toys
Anthropological specimens
Ceremonial objects
Containers
Edged Weapons
Personal adornments
Projectile weapons
tools
Toys
weapons
Pastor Carl Friedrich Theodor Strehlow
More than 180 Aboriginal artefacts made by Western Arrernte people, collected by Carl Strehlow at Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission in the western MacDonnell Ranges, C.A. in 1913.
Ceremonial and secular objects.
Out of copyright
Out of copyright
Specimen list in specimen documentation file, S.A. Museum. This collection is one of at least seven similar collections assembled by Carl Strehlow at Hermmansburg during the years 1906-1917. This collection was impounded by Federal Customs authorities in Adelaide, 1914, and was compulsorily acquired, having been deemed to contain objects of important cultural heritage. Strehlow provided full ethnographic description of like objects in his seven volume Die Aranda- und Loritja Stamme (ed. von Leonhardi, Städtisches Völker-Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, 1907-20). Related collection notes: Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives and in State Records Office, South Australia; Strehlow Research Centre, Alice Springs; similar ethnographic collections assembled by Carl Strehlow held in German museums. Entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120138b.htm
Hermannsburg
Finke River
MacDonnell Ranges
Central Australia
Northern Territory
1913
1914
SAMA 43
Carving Collection
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Carvings
stone carvings
woodcarvings
Aboriginal material culture
Alipimini
Austin
Baker
Boab nut
carving
Coulthard
Crombie
Dodd
Fairy
Gumana
Gundinga
James
Kandji
Karadada
Kite
Krpinyeri
Lindsay
Lipawanga
Mckenzie
Mid 19th Century to present
Murray
Namponan
Roberts
Roughsay
Tjupurrla
walking stick
Walmbeng
wara
Woola
Worriddiol
Youngi
Yunupingu
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
carving
Carvings
Wood carvings
More than 450 Aboriginal carvings in wood and stone. The majority are with provenance to South Australia and the Northern Territory.
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Australia
South Australia
Northern Territory
1845
1855
SAMA 44
Club Collection
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
clubs (weapons)
nulla nullas
Aboriginal material culture
club
Mid 19th Century to present
Nulla Nulla
waddy
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
weapons
clubs
Percussive weapons
Close to 2000 Aboriginal clubs from all regions of Australia
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Australia
1845
1855
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SAMA 4
D. Garner Jones Fiji Collection
Johnson Fiji Collection
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Anthropological specimens
Domestic equipment
Ornaments
Tapa cloths
weapons
Artefacts
Indigenous peoples
David Garner Jones
J.A. Johnson
David Garner Jones
Ethnographic
Fiji
J.A. Johnson
ethnology
indigenous artefacts
140 objects collected by David Garner-Jones, purchased by J.A. Johnson in 1900 and donated to the South Australian Museum. Garner-Jones was headmaster at Levuka Public School. Collection includes tapa cloths, ornaments, weapons, household items.
Copyright to photographs of the collections: Rod Ewins
Copyright to photographs of the collections: Rod Ewins
Researched by Dr Rod Ewins. Publication: Ewins, R. 2007 The perils of ethnographic provenance; the documentation of the Johnson Fiji Collection in the South Australian Museum. In, Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 33-67. Online note: Online as part of the entire Fiji collections (almost 900 objects) of the South Australian Museum, all of which has been photographed and annotated by Dr Rod Ewins. Related External Collections: Garner-Jones collection in the Burke Museum (USA); see www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/ethnology/collections/advanced.php?archives=0&lc=mel&NAME=&CULTURE_OF_ORIGIN =Fiji&MAKER_OR_ARTIST=&DESCRIPTION=&SUBJECT=&SOURCE=Dr.+Garner+Jones&x=28&y=12
Fiji
1894
1900
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AA 23
Daisy May Bates (AA 23)
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Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal customs
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
historic documents
Photography
Aboriginal languages
Aboriginal peoples
Dreaming (Spiritual)
Exhibits
Photography
Anthropological specimens
Clothing
Correspondence
Documents
Photographs
Australian Anthropology
Clothing
Correspondence
Exhibtions
Linguistic data
Maps
Photographs
Publications
tjuringas
Daisy May Bates
The Daisy May Bates collection in the South Australian Museum Archives comprises: correspondence relating to Australian Anthropology; publications by Daisy Bates and other authors; notes and labels relating to tjuringas and other objects; linguistic data; personal correspondence, clothing and other Items; photographs relating to Australian Aboriginal people; Maps annotated by Daisy Bates; and papers relating to the 'We Remember Daisy Bates' exhibition curated by the National Trust of South Australia.
Born in 1859, Daisy Bates, a journalist and self-trained anthropologist, worked extensively with Australian Aboriginal people in Western Australia and South Australia from the 1890's to the 1930's. She recorded information on Australian Aboriginal customs, mythology, language and lifestyle. From 1919 to 1934 Daisy Bates lived at Ooldea, a siding on the Trans-Australian Railway in South Australia. During this time she recorded much valuable data on the Australian Aboriginal people of the Nullarbor Plain and Great Victoria Desert. Daisy Bates died on 18 April 1951.
Some material is still in copyright to the Museum Board of South Australia
Some material is still in copyright to the Museum Board of South Australia
Related External Collections: Bates' extensive collection of manuscripts, notes, correspondence, newspaper articles, photographs and other documentary material is housed in the National Library of Australia. The Barr-Smith Library at the University of Adelaide has photocopies of the material in the NLA plus additional correspondence and other items. The State Library of South Australia also has some Bates correspondence.
Western Australia
South Australia
Nullarbor Plain
Great Victoria Desert
1904
2000
SAMA 22
Douglas Mawson Photographic Collection 1908-09
British Antarctic Expedition Photographic Collection 1907-09
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Antarctic Expeditions
British Antarctic Expedition (BAE)
Douglas Mawson
Newman & Guardia camera
Antarctic regions
Antarctica
Exploration
Photography
Antarctic workers
expeditions
Explorers
geography & travel
Photography
Douglas Mawson
Photographs
A collection of photographs taken by Douglas Mawson (1182-1958) during the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-09. Mawson undertook a considerable amount of the photographic work, including developing and printing, in addition to his work as Physicist. Attribution of the approximately 1,000 images cannot always be given to Mawson, with the Expedition's Newman & Guardia cameras being used by several members.
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
There has been some doubt about the provenance of the BAE photographs, the certainty of those by Mawson depends on either their subject matter, and/or if the South Austalian Museum holds the negative.
Winter Quarter (Cape Royds) environs
On board Nimrod (BAE was a limited ship-based and multiple land-based venture, 1907-09)
1907
1909
SAMA 29
Dr Ian Steven African Collection
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Africa
Coptic
Ethiopia
Africa
Basketwork
Decorative arts
Handicrafts
Iconography
Jewellery
Money
Religious art
basketry
Carvings
coins
craft working
crucifixes
currency
Jewellery
Ornaments
religious icons
Religious objects
Baskets
Carvings
coins
Floor mats
Jewellery
Ornaments
Religious books
Religious objects
Textiles
Dr Ian Steven
Collection of 707 items from Africa, predominantly Ethiopian Coptic, including processional, hand held and pectoral crosses, scrolls, scripture books, stone icons, jewellery including necklaces, bracelets, earrings and rings, beads, ornaments, carvings, coins, batik, mats and basketry.
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Donated to the South Australian Museum under the Cultural Gifts Program. Display at the Egyptian Coptic Community Centre of South Australia in 2000. Researched by SAM Collection Manager, Aphrodite Rose, for a Masters Report completed in 2002. Dr Ian Steven collected the items predominantly from markets while he was providing medical aid in Ethiopia during the Famine Relief Effort in the 1970s.
North Africa
Ethiopia
Africa
East Africa
1979
SAMA 3
Edgar Waite's 'North-west Pacific' Expedition Collection
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Anthropological specimens
Carvings
Ceremonial objects
Field notes
Masks
Negatives
Artefacts
Belief
body adornments and alterations
Ceremonies
Cultural images
Indigenous peoples
Edgar Waite
Ethnographic
field diary
malangan
New Guinea
New Ireland
Papua
Photographs
Edgar Waite
ethnology
indigenous artefacts
Journals
Photography
Collection of ethnographic material assembled by Edgar Waite in 1918, then Director of the South Australian Museum, mainly in New Ireland. He also purchased whole collections from various people living in Samarai (Papua), Rabaul (New Britain), New Ireland and the Tabar Islands. 1040 objects, 556 collected by Waite and 484 purchased from other collectors who had objects from as far afield as Manus, the Sepik and Ramu Rivers, and Bougainville. Most significant component is the malangan funerary carvings and masks from New Ireland/Tabar Islands; only the New Ireland collections in Berlin, Chicago, Sydney and Cologne are larger and more representative. Includes Waite's Field Diary (which has been transcribed) and 275 nitrate negatives/prints which have been scanned and indexed.
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Researched by Barry Craig (including two field trips to New Ireland/Tabar Islands 1992, 2002). Publications: Craig, B. 1994 'Masta Bilong Faiawud.' Paradise 103: 29-31. 1995 'Following the tracks of Edgar Waite in New Guinea for the Pacific Arts Symposium in Adelaide.' Records of the South Australian Museum. 28,1: 33-52. 2007 Edgar Waite's 'North-West Pacific Expedition' - the 'hidden' collections. In, Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pp. 173-195. About a third of the collection has been photographed; about 30% has been on display in the Pacific Gallery for at least 70 years. Photographs and archival material in SA Museum Archives under AA356.
Tabar Islands, Papua New Guinea
New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Samarai, Papua New Guinea
Goodenough Island, Papua New Guinea
Tami Islands, Papua New Guinea
Schouten Islands
Ramu River, Papua New Guinea
Sepik River, New Guinea
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
Buka, Papua New Guinea
New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Manus, Papua New Guinea
1918
SAMA 47
Ernabella Collection
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20th century
Aboriginal material culture
Anangu
Duguid
Jangkandjara
Mission
Pitjantjatjara
Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
welfare establishments
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Missions
350 Aboriginal artefacts from the Ernabella (mission) area
Ernabella (Pukatja) is one of several Aboriginal communities located in the Anagu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of South Australia. It was established as a Presbyterian mission in 1938. Charles Duguid is associated with setting up the mission.
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Anagu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands of South Australia
Ernabella (Pukatja)
SAMA 9
Ernest Sterne Usher Photographs of the South-west Pacific
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E.R. Stanley
Ernest Sterne Usher
J.W. Beattie
L.L. Wrathall
W.H. Cooper
Ernest Sterne Usher
New Guinea
Papuan Gulf
Photographs
Solomon Islands
Photographs
Photography
630 nitrate negatives/photographs, mainly of the eastern Papuan Gulf region, taken by Usher during 1914-16 while he was working as a geologist/surveyor for oil exploration in the region of the Vailala and Purari rivers. Donated by his sister, Edith Saxton, in 1972. Usher took photographs at other locations in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands during his travel back to Australia on leave but died in a canoe accident soon after return to the Vailala area. Photographs taken by E.R. Stanley, L.L. Wrathall, W.H. Cooper and J.W. Beattie are included in the collection.
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Researched by Grahame R. Pike and Barry Craig. All the images have been photographed professionally. The original negatives and prints are kept in the SA Museum Archives under AA835. In 1996-7, an exhibition of a selection of 50 images was exhibited in the SA Museum's Pacific Gallery; these prints were donated to the Papua New Guinea National Museum & Art Gallery in 1999 and subsequently prints of the same series were purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Publications: Pike, G.R. & B. Craig 1999 The Usher Photographic Collection from the South-West Pacific. Records of the South Australian Museum. 31(2): 215-253. Craig, B. 1999 The Papuan Photographs of Ernest Sterne Usher. Pacific Arts 19&20: 27-37. Related external collections: 99 prints, Collingwood Bay, Papua, apparently taken by Usher, in the archives of the Museum of Victoria.
various locations in the central Solomon Islands
Rabaul, Witu Island, Ablingi Island and Lindenhafen, New Britain
South coast of Papua, Port Moresby to Vailala River and the Purari Delta of Papua
1914
1916
SAMA 49
Ethno-Botanical Collection
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Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
food
medicines
Aboriginal material culture
adhesive
food
gum fibre
medicine
Mid 19th Century to present
narcotic
plants
resin
seed
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Drugs
Indigenous foods
Indigenous medicine
plants
Resins
Anthropological specimens
Botanical specimens
Specimens
Approximately 300 items of botanical material relevant to traditional Aboriginal cultural use. Most of these items come from South Australia and the Northern Territory.
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South Australia
Northern Territory
1845
1855
SAMA 14
Francis Gillen Collection
Francis James Gillen (1855-1912)
Gillen
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Photography
Aboriginal artefacts
Australian Aboriginal material culture
axe
bag
Bags
basket
boomerang
Ceremonial objects
club
container
cordage
F.J. Gillen
fire-making
knife
Late 19th and early 20th centuries
Manuscripts
material
medical
message
musical instrument
narcotic
ornament
Photographs
plume
shield
sorcery
spear
spear-thrower
tjurunga
toy
waninga
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Ceremonial objects
Drugs
Indigenous medicine
musical instruments
Photography
sorcery
Toys
Anthropological specimens
Ceremonial objects
Containers
Documents
Edged Weapons
Personal adornments
Photographs
Projectile weapons
tools
Toys
weapons
Francis James Gillen
More 500 Aboriginal artefacts collected by F.J.Gillen from central and north-central Australia.
F.J. Gillen is recognised as one of Australia's pioneer anthropologists, in partnership with the zoologist and museum director W.B. Spencer.
Collection is centred upon the material culture of the Arrernte peoples, mainly collected by Gillen at and near Alice Springs, N.T., during the 1890s, but also in partnership with W.B. Spencer during the 1901-1902 Spencer-Gillen Expedition, from Oodnadatta to Borroloola.
Out of copyright
Out of copyright
Original object lists in specimen documentation files; collection documentation (of like or actual objects) in W.B. Spencer and F.J. Gillen (1899) Native Tribes of Central Australia, Macmillan, London and, for example, F.J. Gillen (1968) Gillen's Diary: The Camp Jottings of F. J. Gillen on the Spencer and Gillen Expedition Across Australia, 1901-1902. State Library of S.A., Adelaide. Online note: Under development (comprehensive website with digitised resources relating to Spencer and Gillen). Related Collections: Gillen photograph albums, glass-plate negatives and glass slides, collection lists, one field notebook, correspondence held in the SAM Archives (AA108; AA93; AA298); Gillen journals and field notes also held in Special Collections, Barr Smith Library at the University of Adelaide and in PRG 456, State Library of South Australia. W.B. Spencer's journals, photographs and ethnographic collections (complementary to Gillen's) are held in several institutions, but notably Museum Victoria. For Gillen's biographical entry, see http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090007b.htm
Alice Springs
Tennant Creek
Wycliffe River
Central Australia
MacDonnell Ranges
Crown Point
Charlottte Waters
Finke River
Hanson River
Barrow Creek
1890
1902
SAMA 26
Frank Hurley Panoramic Collection 1929-31
British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition Panoramic Photographic Collection
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Antarctic Expeditions
British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE)
Discovery Expedition
James Francis (Frank) Hurley
Antarctic regions
Antarctica
Exploration
Photography
Antarctic workers
expeditions
Explorers
geography & travel
Photography
James Francis (Frank) Hurley
Panoramic photographs
Photographs
A collection of 125 images taken by James Francis (Frank) Hurley. These images are of a specially wide angle (83 x 254mm), made for dramatic images that took Hurley to the length, breadth and height of the expedition ship.
The collection includes the film camera circa 1925, which unusually laid down an image on a curved film plane via a pivoting lens, and was operated by James Francis Hurley on the Discovery Expedition. The lens was of fixed focus and exposure times could be varied by adjusting to one of two tensions of the spring controlling the lens. This is the only surviving panoramic camera from Mawson’s numerous expeditions.
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On board Discovery and various landfalls of the BANZARE voyages (1929-31)
1929
1931
SAMA 20
Frank Hurley Whole Plate Photographic Collection 1911-14
Australasian Antarctic Expedition Whole Plate Photographic Collection 1911-14
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Antarctic Expeditions
Aurora Expedition
Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE)
Glass plate negatives
Graflex camera
James Francis (Frank) Hurley
Antarctic regions
Antarctica
Exploration
Photography
Antarctic workers
expeditions
Explorers
geography & travel
Photography
James Francis (Frank) Hurley
Photographs
A collection of 189 photographs taken by James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) as part of his duties as official photographer, covering expeditionary work on the Aurora Expedition. A Graflex camera was used and the photographs were taken on glass plate negatives (8 ½ by 6 ½ inches).
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Due to the large size and weight of the Graflex camera, Hurley used smaller format (including Stereoscopic) cameras particularly while sledging any distance from the Main Base, on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) led by Douglas Mawson. His AAE Whole Plate Collection was catalogued with the prefix 'W' for this grouping - to distinguish it from the BANZARE Whole Plate Collection ('WP')
Main Base environs (Cape Denison)
Antarctic
On board S.Y. Aurora (the AAE was a ship-based and multiple land-based venture)
Antarctica
1912
1914
SAMA 21
Frank Hurley Whole Plate Photographic Collection 1929-31
British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition Whole Plate Photographic Collection
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Antarctic Expeditions
British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE)
Discovery Expedition
Glass plate negatives
Graflex camera
James Francis (Frank) Hurley
Antarctic regions
Antarctica
Exploration
Photography
Antarctic workers
expeditions
Explorers
geography & travel
Photography
James Francis (Frank) Hurley
Photographs
A collection of 284 photographs taken by James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) as part of his duties as official photographer, covering expeditionary work on the Discovery Expedition. A Graflex camera was probably used and the photographs were all taken on glass plate negatives (8 ½ by 6 ½ inches).
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Due to the large size and weight of the Graflex camera, Hurley used smaller format (including Panoramic and Stereoscopic) cameras for. His AAE Whole Plate Collection was catalogued with the prefix 'W' for this grouping - to distinguish it from the BANZARE Whole Plate Collection ('WP')
Antarctic
On board Discovery (BANZARE was a ship-based venture)
Antarctica
1929
1931
SAMA 32
Fromm's Landing Excavation Assemblage
Fromm's Landing
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Aboriginal art
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Bones
Excavations (Archaeology)
Skeleton
tools
Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
stone tools
Animal bones
archaeological excavation
archaeology
dingo skeleton
Excavation Assemblage
organics
rockshelter
shellfish
stone tools
Animal bones
stone tools
Derek John Mulvaney
Fromm's Landing assemblage was excavated by renowned archaeologist Derek John Mulvaney from 1956-1960. This site is on the Murray River, Lower Murray Valley, South Australia and Mulvaney carried out a very deep excavation in this rockshelter. The assemblage includes stone tools, animal bones, shellfish and other organics. Some human remains were also extracted from this site, and these are housed with the Human Biology collection, awaiting repatriation. Of much interest at the time was the find of a complete dingo skeleton. This specimen was dated to 3,300 years old, making it the oldest dingo specimen thus found in Australia.
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Basis of honours research thesis by Amy Roberts, Flinders University, South Australia.
South Australia
Fromm's Landing
Lower Murray Valley
Murray River
3500 BP
SAMA 39
Hawker Lagoon
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
stone tools
tools
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
tools
archaeological excavation
archaeology
Excavation Assemblage
Hawker Lagoon
hearths
kartan tools
Keryn Walshe
Pauline Coulthard
Ron Lampert
stone tools
tools
Excavation at Hawker Lagoon, in the Flinders Ranges took place in the 1980s by archaeologist Ron Lampert. This excavation provided the first Pleistocene occupation date for the Flinders Ranges. Lampert was particularly interested in the 'kartan' tools, characterised by their large proportions and heavy nature. Kartan tools were recorded by Lampert on Kangaroo Island and up into the Flinders Ranges, particularly at Hawker Lagoon. Hawker Lagoon was investigated again in 2003 by Keryn Walshe in collaboration with Pauline Coulthard from Hawker. This investigation failed to find Pleistocene occupation but did record a series of open hearths around the Lake, dated to about 500-1500 years old.
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'Early Human Occupation of the Flinders Ranges' (1987) by Ron Lampert and Phil Hughes, Records of SA Museum. 'Aboriginal occupation at Hawker Lagoon, southern Flinders Ranges' (2005) by Keryn Walshe, Australian Archaeology Vol 60:29-35.
Southern Flinders Ranges
Hawker Lagoon
1500 BP
500 BP
SAMA 46
Hermannsburg Collection
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
welfare establishments
Aboriginal material culture
Hermannsburg
Late 19th Century to present
Mission
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Missions
More than 400 Aboriginal artefacts collected from Hermannsburg (Mission) area
Hermannsberg (Ntaria in the Arrernte language) was established as Lutheran mission in 1877. Notable people associated with the mission include Pastor Carl Strehlow and his son, TGH Strehlow, a noted Anthropologist
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Hermannsberg
Ntaria
SAMA 40
Howchin Type Specimens
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
stone tools
tools
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
tools
adzes
anvils
blades
core scrapers
hammerstones
History of Australian Archaeology
knives
scrapers
stone tool types
stone tools
tools
Walter Howchin
In the early 1900s Walter Howchin selected specimens from the Museum collection to begin the first formal descriptions of stone tool types. He concentrated on the Adelaide region and included large and small implements ranging from core scrapers, hammerstones, anvils to blades, scrapers, knives and adzes. These specimens were figured in his publication in 1937. The Museum still holds this figured types as a valuable part of the history of Australian Archaeology.
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'The stone implements of the Adelaide Tribe of Aborigines (now extinct)' (1934) by Walter Howchin, Gillingham and Co, Adelaide.
Adelaide region
1900
1930
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AA 827
Iris Daphne Dicks (AA 827)
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Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Landscapes (views)
railway sidings
welfare establishments
Aboriginal peoples
Landscapes
Missions
Photography
Railway lines
Commonwealth Railways
Harrie green
Mrs Iris Daphne Dicks (nee Bishop)
Walter Dicks
Documents
Photographs
Harrie green
Moonta
Nullabor Plain
Ooldea
Ooldea Mission
Ooldea Siding
The Iris Dicks Collection consists of 97 black and white photographs taken by Iris Dicks at Ooldea, South Australia between 1937 and 1949. The photographs depict Aboriginal people, landscape scenes and views of Ooldea Siding and Ooldea Mission, and some of Fowlers Bay and other locations on the west coast of South Australia. the collection also includes related documentation and corresspondence.
Mrs Iris Daphne Dicks (nee Bishop) was born at Moonta in 1913. She married Walter Dicks, who was born in 1904 in England and later emigrated to Australia. After their marriage, Wally was employed by the Commonwealth Railways as a ganger on the East-West Line, and they lived together at Ooldea Siding on the South Australian Nullarbor Plain from 1937 to 1949. During that period Iris had considerable contact with the Aboriginal people who frequented the siding. Iris and Wally also became close friends with Harrie Green, the Superintendent of the United Aborigines' Mission station at Ooldea Soak, and his wife, Marion. After leaving Ooldea in 1949 the Dicks lived for some time in Victor Harbor until Wally got a job at the Woomera Rocket Range. Later, in the 1950s, the Dicks moved to Fowlers Bay, on South Australia's far west coast, where Wally worked for the Highways Department. He was later transferred to Port Augusta, where they lived after Wally's retirement. Wally died on 14 April 1988 and Iris died on 4 November 2001, aged 88 years.
The Museum Board of South Australia
The Museum Board of South Australia
Ooldea Siding, South Australia
Ooldea, South Australia
1937
1958
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AA 632
John Kevin Raphael Doolan (AA 632)
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Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Aboriginal Palm Islanders
oral histories
Aboriginal peoples
Interviews
Narratives
Oral History
Songs
Vocabularies
John (Jack) Doolan
Norman B Tindale
Sound recordings
The South Australian Museum Archive collection comprises stories, songs and vocabularies recorded by Jack Doolan at the Palm Island Government Settlement during 1963-64. The collection contains 20 magnetic reel to reel tapes.
John Doolan was born on 14 June 1927, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Known as Jack Doolan, he served in the Royal Australian Navy as well as serving two terms as an Australian Labor Party Member of the Legislative Assembly for Victoria River, Northern Territory. Between his military and political careers, Doolan worked as a Patrol Officer. During this time Doolan came into contact with Norman B Tindale and subsequently recorded oral histories with Aboriginal Palm Islanders in Queensland. He died in 1995.
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The Museum Board of South Australia
Palm Island, Queensland
1963
1964
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AA 291
John Michael Skipper (AA 291)
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Biographies
corroborees
diaries
families
Painters
Painting
portraits
Visual arts
Biographies
coloinial South Australia
Corroboree
diaries
Family portraits
Biographies
diaries
Negatives
paintings
Photographic transparencies
corroborees
families
Journals
paintings
portraits
Herbert Hale
John Michael Skipper
Mary Thomas
The South Australian Museum's collection comprises of four series. Series one is the oil painting ""Corroboree"". Series two contains negatives, prints and transparencies associated with the oil painting 'Corroboree'. Series three is a collection of prints and negative images of the oil painting 'Skipper Family at Islington'. Series four includes an incomplete biography of Skipper by Herbert Hale, as well as transcribed segments from Mary Thomas' Diary.
John Michael Skipper was born in 1815, Norwich, England. He was an intelligent, vivacious solicitor who is remembered predominantly as an artist that documented the character of early colonial South Australia with romantic sensitivity. He died in 1883, Kent Town, South Australia.
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Colony of South Australia
Islington, South Australia
1840
1986
SAMA 10
Joseph van Waterschoot van der Gracht Collection
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Antarctic Expeditions
Antarctic regions
Antarctica
Crayon drawing
Exploration
Pencil drawing
Travel
Antarctic workers
expeditions
Explorers
geography & travel
Drawings
Joseph van Waterschoot van der Gracht
11 artworks in pencil and crayon have been positively identified as works by Gracht, with another 21 probably of the same provenance, all created by the artist on the first relief voyage of the expedition ship 'Aurora'. They capture polar scenes not otherwise recorded, and inject a large degree of humour the public still find engaging in large part.
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Antarctica
On board Aurora
Antarctic
1912
1913
SAMA 5
Kenneth Thomas North Sepik Collection
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Anthropological specimens
Bags
Ceremonial objects
Clothing
Domestic equipment
Figures
Masks
Models
Ornaments
paddles
tools
weapons
Archives
Ethnographic
Kenneth Thomas
New Guinea
Photographs
Sepik coast
Artefacts
body adornments and alterations
Ceremonies
Indigenous peoples
water transport
ethnology
indigenous artefacts
Photography
Kenneth Thomas
184 objects collected during Thomas's service as a Patrol Officer for the Administration of the Territory of New Guinea. These include defensive and offensive weapons, tools, paddles, body ornaments, skirts, household items, string bags, canoe models, masks, carved figures, headrests, ritual objects. About half the collection has been on display in the Pacific Gallery since 1947.
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Researched by Barry Craig (including field trip in 2002). Copies of 2000 pages of Thomas's diaries, notes, field reports, maps etc obtained from originals held by Thomas's daughter, including a few photographs. All the objects have been photographed. Publication: Craig, B. 2002 'A Stranger in a Strange Land': Kenneth Thomas in the North Sepik Region of Papua New Guinea. In, Anita Herle, Nick Stanley, Karen Stevenson and Robert L. Welsch (eds), Pacific Art: Persistence, Change and Meaning. Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing. Pp. 191-207. Photographs and archival material in SA Museum Archives under AA336.
Papua New Guinea
lower Sepik River area, Papua New Guinea
North coast and hinterland of East Sepik Province
North coast and hinterland of West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
1927
1934
SAMA 34
Koonalda Cave
Koonalda
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Aboriginal art
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
mines
mining
rock images
Aboriginal art
archaeological excavation
archaeology
Barn Owls
bird bones
debris
Excavation Assemblage
flint debitage
Koonalda Cave
mammal bones
Masked Owls
mining
Owl pellet deposition
reptile bones
Aboriginal art
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Bones
Excavations (Archaeology)
mining
Alexander (Sandor) Gallus
Richard VS Wright
Animal bones
Artworks
Koonalda Cave was excavated by Alexander (Sandor) Gallus at various times between 1956 and 1968 and again in 1973. It quickly gained international recognition for its ancient artwork, witnessed as series of finger groovings on a series rock faces and for its flint mining. Both these activities took place deep underground in total darkness. Excavation was undertaken jointly with Richard VS Wright in 1968. The two excavations yielded similar dating results for cave use between about 20,000 and 7,000 years ago. However Gallus obtained a date of 36,000 from one sample. This much older date was not matched by the other investigation and the oldest date of cave use at Koonalda has been placed at 20,000 years old. Koonalda Cave assemblage does not express occupation. The focus over the 20-7,000 year phase appears to be for mining and art. The mining left behind an enormous quantity of flint debitage and debris and occupation of the cave by Masked and Barn Owls added a significant quantity of small mammal, bird and reptile bone, via pellet deposition.
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'Archaeology of the Gallus Site, Koonalda Cave' (1971) edited by RVS Wright, AIAS, Canberra, AAS No 26.
Koonalda Cave
Nullarbor Plain
western margin of South Australia
20000 BP
7,000 BP
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AA 566
Kruger, Johan Friedrich Carl (AA 566)
Johan Friedrich Carl Kruger (AA 566)
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Aboriginal peoples
Missions
photographers
Photography
portraits
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
photo albums
photographers
Photography
Portrait photography
portraits
welfare establishments
albumen prints
albumen prints
Photograph albums
Portrait photographs
Johan Friedrich Carl (Fred) Kruger
Victorian Board for the protection of Aborigines
The South Australian Museum collection comprises 12 photographs of Aboriginal people in Victoria bound in one album. Eleven of these prints are studio portraits of Aboriginal men, women and children and one print of an Aboriginal family. Each print is mounted on an individual page with titles below the image.
Johan Friedrich Carl (Fred) Kruger was a professional photographer born on 18 April 1831 in Berlin. Kruger arrived in Australia in the early 1860s and in 1866 he opened a photographic studio at 133 Cardigan Street, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria. In 1866 Kruger took the first group photograh of the Aboriginal cricket team who later played in England in 1868. Kruger was commissioned in 1877 by the Victorian Board for the protection of Aborigines to produce an album of carte-de-visite portraits of the Aboriginal people at the Coranderrk Aboriginal Mission Station. Fred Kruger died in Surrey Hills, Melbourne on 18 February 1888.
The Museum Board of South Australia
The Museum Board of South Australia
Coranderrk Aboriginal Mission Station
Victoria
1877
1877
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AA 43
Laurie Bryan (AA 43)
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Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Aboriginal Education Foundation of South Australia
Aboriginal Progress Association
Laurie Bryan
Port Augusta Aboriginal reserve
South Australian Advancement League
Aboriginal peoples
Aboriginal reserves
Interviews
Aboriginal Progress Association
Port Augusta Aboriginal reserve
Port Augusta Reserve
Sound recordings
The South Australian Museum collections contains recorded interviews of Aboriginal Progress Association members and residents of the Port Augusta Aboriginal reserve.
Laurie Bryan actively worked and lobbied for the rights of South Australian Aboriginal people for more than three decades. He was a member of the South Australian Advancement League, contributed to the formation of the Aboriginal Progress Association and formed the Aboriginal Education Foundation of South Australia. For his voluntary services, Bryan was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 1981.
The Museum Board of South Australia
The Museum Board of South Australia
Port Augusta, South Australia
1965
SAMA 27
Mackellar Library Collection
AAE Main Base Official Library
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Antarctic Expeditions
Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE)
Campbell Mackellar
Antarctic regions
Antarctica
Books
Exploration
Antarctic workers
Books
expeditions
Explorers
geography & travel
libraries
Books
Campbell Mackellar
A collection of seven publications stamped with the words 'Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911, Mackellar Library' in ink. Campbell Mackellar was a supporter of the Aurora Expedition, who donated a library for the men. This Library was comprised of sixty publications - at least one of which is still in situ, at the Winter Quarters.
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
Winter Quarters (Cape Denison) Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-14
1912
1914
SAMA 18
McConnel Collection
Ursula Hope McConnel (1888-1957)
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
food
Aboriginal material culture
axe
bag
Bags
basket
boomerang
Ceremonial objects
club
container
cordage
Early to mid 20th century
fire-making
food
knife
material
medical
message
musical instrument
narcotic
ornament
pigment
plume
shield
sorcery
spear
spear-thrower
toy
U.H. McConnel
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Ceremonial objects
Drugs
Indigenous foods
musical instruments
Pigments
sorcery
Toys
Anthropological specimens
Ceremonial objects
Containers
Edged Weapons
Personal adornments
Projectile weapons
tools
Toys
weapons
Ursula Hope McConnel
More than 350 Aboriginal artefacts collected by U.H. McConnel, mostly among the Wik peoples of Cape York, Qld in the 1930s
Comprehensive collection of Wik material culture, including women's objects, toys, ceremonial material, hunting and gathering objects.
S.A. Museum
S.A. Museum
Further information may be found in S.A. Museum specimen documentation files. For a description of the recent rediscovery of a significant quantity of McConnel's archival material, see: P. Sutton 2010 'Ursula Mcconnel's Tin Trunk: A Remarkable Recovery' Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vo.134(1), pp.101-14. McConnell's S.A. Museum ethnographic collection is published in U. McConnel, 1953, Native arts and industries on the Archer, Kendall, and Holroyd rivers, Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland, Records of the South Australian Museum Vol. 11, no.1 (for other refs, see Wikipedia article below). Related collections notes: Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives; McConnel ethnographic material also held in Australian Museum, Sydney and Queensland Museum, Brisbane. Entry in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_McConnel. Entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150214b.htm
Yarrabah
Mapoon
Batavia River
Gulf of Carpentaria
Weipa Mission
Kendall River
Cairns
Daintree River
Princess Charlotte Bay
Archer River
Cape York Peninsula
Queensland
1927
1934
SAMA 36
Moana Sand Dune Excavations and Surface Collections
Moana Collection
Moana
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
charcoal
stone tools
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Excavations (Archaeology)
tools
Animal bones
stone tools
Animal bones
archaeological excavation
archaeology
charcoal
circa 3,500 BP
dingo
Excavation Assemblage
food remains
Moana
shell
stone tools
Norman B Tindale
Val Campbell
Moana is a coastal site on the mid- Fleurieu Peninsula, 15km south of Adelaide. The site has been investigated by numerous South Australian Museum staff, external researchers and consultant archaeologists since the early 1930s. The site consists of a series of deflated surfaces exposed between foreshore and back dunes. Extensive surface collections of stone tools were made by Norman B Tindale, who later argued against encroaching housing development across the main site area. Systematic excavations were carried out by Val Campbell in the 1980s as part of her doctoral research thesis. Excavation revealed small stone tools, food remains such as shell and animal bones and charcoal. The site has been carbon dated to about 3,500 years old. A dingo was also excavated from this site.
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
Various notes and publications in the Anthropology Society Journal, SA by Val Campbell.
Moana Sand Dune
Mid coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia
SAMA 11
Mountford Collection
Charles Pearcy ('Monty') Mountford (1890-1976)
Mountford
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1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
Aboriginal material culture
axe
bag
Bags
basket
boomerang
C.P. Mountford
Ceremonial objects
club
container
cordage
drawing
fire-making
food
knife
material
medical
message
Mid-20th century
musical instrument
narcotic
ornament
Painting
pigment
plume
shield
sorcery
spear
spear-thrower
tools
toy
Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
expeditions
geography & travel
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
bark painting
Crayon drawing
Exploration
Sculpture
Anthropological specimens
Bark paintings
Ceremonial objects
Drawings
Ornaments
Sculptures
tools
weapons
Charles Pearcy (Monty) Mountford
More than 1000 Aboriginal artefacts collected by C.P. Mountford, includes collections made during the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, and Mountford's 1952
Collection's strengths: bark paintings, crayon drawings, wooden sculptures
S.A. Museum; State Library of South Australia
S.A. Museum; State Library of South Australia
See Mountford C.P. 1956 Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land Vol.1: Art, Myth and Symbolism, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne; and Mountford, C.P. 1958. The Tiwi. Their Art, Myth and Ceremony Phoenix House, London.. Further information in specimen documentation files, S.A. Museum, and in the Mountford-Sheard Collection, State Library of South Australia. See also M. Lamshed Monty (Adelaide, 1972) and Philip Jones, 'Mountford, Charles Pearcy (1890 - 1976)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 431-433. Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives collections; includes a large selection of Aboriginal crayon drawings. Entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150500b.htm
Warburton Range (W.A.)
Northern Territory
Western Australia
South Australia
Northern Australia
Central Australia
Milingimbi
Groote Eylandt
Yirrkalla
Oenpelli
Melville Island
Arnhem Land
Nepabunna
1920
1969
SAMA 30
Native American Collection
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America
Anthropological specimens
Baskets
canoes
Clothing
Containers
Figures
Fishing equipment
Floor mats
Food servers
Hunting and gathering tools
Jewellery
Models
musical instruments
Ornaments
Personal adornments
tools
weapons
Artefacts
Basketwork
canoes
Costume
Decorative arts
Fishing
Food service
Handicrafts
Hunting
Indigenous peoples
Jewellery
musical instruments
pottery
tools
weapons
basketry
Baskets
canoes
Clothing
craft working
fabrics
figurines
food
Hunting
indigenous artefacts
Jewellery
Models
musical instruments
North American Indians
Ornaments
pottery
tools
weapons
Collection of 334 items - 239 from North, 72 from South, 23 from Central. Items include pottery, containers, figurines, basketry, mats, textiles, canoe models, weapons, ornaments, jewellery, clothing, musical instruments, tools and equipment, hunting and fishing, food service.
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Pottery display in SAM Science Centre foyer. Previous exhibition - NMA 'Extremes' South American items. Flinders University Masters Student Autumn Wright researched and completed Report on Central American Collection in 2010.
South America
Americas
North America
Central America
1000AD
1999
SAMA 31
Ngaut Ngaut (Devon Downs) Excavation Assemblage
Devon Downs
Ngaut Ngaut
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Aboriginal art
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Excavations (Archaeology)
tools
Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
stone tools
Animal bones
Artworks
stone tools
Animal bones
archaeological excavation
archaeology
Excavation Assemblage
ochred artwork
organics
rockshelter
shellfish
stone tools
Herbert Hale
Norman Tindale
Ngaut Ngaut is a rockshelter on the Murray River, Lower Murray Valley, South Australia. The excavation of this rock shelter took place from 1927-8 by South Australian Museum officers Herbert Hale and Norman Tindale and was the first formal archaeological excavation undertaken in Australia. The assemblage includes stone tools, animal bones, shellfish and other organics. Some human remains were also extracted from this site, and these are housed with the Human Biology collection, awaiting repatriation. Ochred artwork was identified on rock fallen into the base of the excavation.
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Basis of honours research thesis by Michael Smith, Australian National University, Canberra.
Lower Murray Valley
Murray River
Ngaut Ngaut
South Australia
1928
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SAMA 13
Paul Foelsche Collection
Paul Heinrich Matthias Foelsche
Paul Foelsche
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Photography
Portrait photography
portraits
Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal portraiture
armbands
Australian Aboriginal material culture
axes
Bags
Baskets
belts
Boomerangs
ceremonial headgear
clubs
Containers
cordage
didgeridoo
didjeridus
early N.T. Photography
ethno-botanical specimens
feather plumes
fire-making implements
headbands
Iwaidja
knives
Larrakia
late 19th century
medical charms
message-sticks
natural history
necklaces
nose-pegs
ochres
Paul Foelsche
sorcery objects
spear-throwers
spears
Woolnah (Djerimanga)
Aboriginal languages
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Basketwork
Ceremonial objects
Ceremonies
Indigenous medicine
Photography
portraits
sorcery
Vocabularies
Anthropological specimens
Botanical specimens
Ceremonial objects
Containers
Edged Weapons
musical instruments
Personal adornments
Portrait photographs
portraits
Projectile weapons
tools
weapons
Paul Heinrich Matthias Foelsche
More than 300 Aboriginal artefacts collected from the Top End of the Northern Territory during the late 19th century by Paul Foelsche (284 registered artefacts in S.A. Museum collection).
Paul Foelsche (1831-1914) was appointed Sub-Inspector of Police in the Northern Territory in late 1869, taking up his position in early 1870. He was a pioneer photographer of Northern Territory landscapes, the town of Palmerston (later Darwin) and made a remarkable series of group and individual portraits of Larrakia, Woolna (Djerimanga), Iwaidja and other Aboriginal groups of the Top End. From the mid-1870s he began collecting ethnographic material, supplying International Exhibitions and the South Australian Museum, with well-documented artefacts.
Foelsche's ethnographic collection is accompanied by his original lists, giving language terms for objects, uses, and group affiliation.
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Further information may be found in specimen documentation files, in the S.A. Museum website (see below) and in the publication; Paul Foelsche 1881, Notes on the Aborigines of North Australia, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia; Philip Jones 2005 The Policeman's Eye. The frontier photography of Paul Foelsche. Exhibition booklet, South Australian Museum, Adelaide; R. J. Noye, 'Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias (1831 - 1914)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 192-193. A number of Foelsche's ethnographic objects, including ceremonial head-gear and ethnobotanical specimens, are displayed in the Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery, S.A. Museum. Online note: 'The Policeman's Eye: Paul Foelsche's Frontier Photography website Related collections: Associated archival component (specimen lists, glass negatives, albumen photographic prints, correspondence) held in the SAM Archives collections (esp. AA96; AA298); additional correspondence with John Lewis in PRG 247, State Library of S.A.; natural history specimens in S.A. Museum; botanical specimens in Melbourne Herbarium
Port Darwin
Cobourg Peninsula
Darwin
Northern Territory
Katherine River
MacArthur River
Palmerston
Port Essington
Port Keats
Daly Waters
Pine Creek
Powell's Creek
1877
1899
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AA 267
Peter Melville Rice (AA 267)
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Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Aboriginal languages
Aboriginal music
Aboriginal peoples
Maps
Narration
Photography
Storytelling
Clothing
cooking
house building
Pitjantjatjara people
seed grinding
Spearmaking
spinning
Welfare Officer
Wiltja
Maps
Photographs
Sound recordings
Peter Melville Rice
South Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs (SADAA)
Tommy Dodd
The South Australian Museum Archive collection comprises: narrative and singing recorded at Musgrave Park, South Australia, 1963; photographs taken by Peter Melville Rice including photographs of Tommy Dodd; and maps hand drawn by Tommy Dodd.
Peter Melville Rice was born on 30 December 1928, Colonel Light Gardens, South Australia. Peter Melville Rice attended the University of Adelaide from 1960 to 1963 after completing 13 years service in the Royal Australia Navy. Upon completion of a degree in social sciences, Rice accepted a position with the South Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs (SADAA) as a Welfare Officer working with Australian Aboriginal people in and around Adelaide as well as the mid-North of South Australia. During that time Rice recorded events with the Pitjantjatjara people as well as assessing their health and socioeconomic conditions. Rice's service with SADAA concluded in 1966 when he accepted a position with the then Commonwealth Department of Immigration firstly in Adelaide and then in Canberra developing migrant settlement services on a national basis.
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The Museum Board of South Australia
North Adelaide, South Australia
Musgrave Park, South Australia
1960
1969
SAMA 8
Pretty-Crawford Southern Highlands Collection
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Anthony L. Crawford
Graeme L. Pretty
Anthony L. Crawford
diaries
Ethnographic
Field notes
Graeme L. Pretty
Mendi
New Guinea
Photographs
Southern Highlands
Tari
Anthropological specimens
diaries
Field notes
Photographs
Artefacts
Indigenous peoples
ethnology
expeditions
indigenous artefacts
Journals
Photography
c.900 objects collected in 1968-69 during a South Australian Museum expedition to Mendi and Tari in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea; two thirds of the collection was given to the PNG National Museum and one third brought back to the SA Museum. Graeme L. Pretty, Curator of Archaeology at the SA Museum assembled most of the collection and made extensive field notes; Anthony L. Crawford concentrated on photography. Some 270 mono images and 670 colour images were taken by Pretty and Crawford.
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
Currently being researched by Phil Fitzpatrick. About half the SA Museum part of the collection has been photographed; all the 940 field photos have been scanned and indexed, and the field notes, etc. have been transcribed. Related external collections: Two thirds of this collection is in the PNG National Museum.
Bela and surrounds, Papua New Guinea
east of Tari, Papua New Guinea
Wabia and surrounds, Papua New Guinea
north of Mend, Papua New Guinea
Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea
1/12/1968
1/01/1969
SAMA 16
Reuther Collection
Pastor Johann Georg Reuther (1861-1914)
Reuther
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
food
Aboriginal material culture
axe
bag
Bags
basket
boomerang
Ceremonial objects
club
container
cordage
fire-making
food
Johann Georg Reuther
knife
Late 19th to early 20th century
material
medical
message
musical instrument
narcotic
ornament
pigment
plume
shield
sorcery
spear
spear-thrower
toy
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Ceremonial objects
Drugs
Indigenous foods
Indigenous medicine
musical instruments
Pigments
sorcery
Toys
Anthropological specimens
Ceremonial objects
Containers
Edged Weapons
Personal adornments
Projectile weapons
tools
Toys
weapons
Carl Strehlow
Pastor Johann Georg Reuther
Close to 1000 Aboriginal artefacts at Killalpaninna (Bethesda) Lutheran Mission, Cooper Creek, S.A., collected by Reuther, late 1890s - 1905.
After training at Neuendettelsau Seminary in Germany, Reuther arrived at Killalpaninna Mission in 1888. His evangelical efforts were founded upon knowledge of the language, beliefs and traditions of the Diyari and related groups. This focused interest resulted in a joint translation of the New Testament into the Diyari language (with fellow missionary, Carl Strehlow), and the compilation of a 14 volume manuscript, including a detailed description of the ethnographic collection. This collection also comprised the only documented collection of 'toas', proposed by Reuther to be 'direction posts', but likely to be new and unprecedented artefacts produced in response to Reuther's strong interest in place-names, mythology and ethnography.
Out of copyright
Out of copyright
Further information may be found in specimen document files. See Art and Land (1986) by P. Jones & P. Sutton (Wakefield Press, Adelaide) and P. Jones (2007) 'Unearthing the toas', pp.225-81) in Ochre and Rust. Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers (Wakefield Press, Adelaide). Related colection note: Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives collections (AA266).
Lake Hope
Central Australia
Cooper Creek
Killalpaninna Mission
Lake Eyre
South Australia
Bethesda Mission
Kopperamanna Mission
1890
1905
SAMA 7
Reverend A.P.H. Freund New Guinea Highlands Collection
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A.P.H. Freund
Ethnographic
Menyamya
New Guinea
Photographs
Yaramanda
Anthropological specimens
Clothing
Domestic equipment
Ornaments
Personal effects
tools
weapons
Artefacts
Indigenous peoples
ethnology
household objects
indigenous artefacts
Reverend A.P.H. Freund
92 objects and associated photographs of the Western Highlands and Kukukuku (Anga) peoples obtained during Lutheran missionary service in those areas in the 1950s. Collection includes tools, weapons, ornaments, clothing, household and personal items. All the objects have been photographed; the objects and associated photographs have been documented by Phil Fitzpatrick in consultation with Rev. Freund.
Some material included in this collection may be subject to copyright
Researched by Phil Fitzpatrick. Publication: Fitzpatrick, P. 1999 The A.P.H. Freund Collection of New Guinea Artefacts held by the South Australian Museum. Records of the South Australian Museum. 31(2): 181-214. Photographs and archival material in SA Museum Archives under AA100. Related external collections: Freund collections in the Queensland Museum and in the Louise Flierl New Guinea Lutheran Mission Museum in Hahndorf, South Australia.
Papua New Guinea
Kukukuku (Anga), Papua New Guinea
Yaramanda, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
Menyamya, Papua New Guinea
Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea
1950
1963
SAMA 6
Reverend William Gray Vanuatu Collection
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Anthropological specimens
Bows and arrows
canoes
Ceremonial objects
Masks
Models
musical instruments
Ornaments
Pots
Tapa cloths
weapons
Artefacts
Indigenous peoples
water transport
Ethnographic
Tanna
Vanuatu
William Gray
ethnology
indigenous artefacts
Reverend H.A. Robertson
Reverend William Gray
70+ objects (plus 5 sets of bows and arrows of uncertain number) collected during service as a Presbyterian missionary based on Tanna in the (then) New Hebrides. These include weapons, masks, ritual and magical objects, ornaments, tapa cloths, pots, model canoes, and musical instruments; a few objects were obtained by Gray from Rev. H.A. Robertson who was based on Erromanga.
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All have been photographed, as have all other objects from Vanuatu in the SA Museum collections. Researched by Barry Craig (including field trip 1997). Publications: Craig, B. 2003 Repaint the drum. Records of the South Australian Museum 36(2): 115-133. 2007. To 'Paddle our own canoe': The Rev William Gray Collection in the South Australian Museum. In, Re-presenting Pacific Art, Eds K. Stevenson and V-L. Webb. Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing Australia. Pp.6-27. Diaries of Rev. William Gray and his wife are in the Mortlock Library, South Australia. Related external collections: Rev. H.A. Robertson collection in the Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal. See: Barbara Lawson 1994 Collected Curios. Missionary Tales from the South Seas. Montreal: McGill University Libraries.
From Tanna, Vanuatu to Malekula, Vanuatu
Central Vanuatu
Southern Vanuatu
1882
1895
SAMA 33
Roonka Archaeology
Roonka Flat
Roonka
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Aboriginal art
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Burial sites
Burials
Death
Excavations (Archaeology)
tools
Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
burial grounds
stone tools
Animal bones
archaeological excavation
archaeology
burial site
clay pipe
Excavation Assemblage
grave goods
mortuary practices
organics
pearl buttons
post contact
Roonka Dune
Roonka Flat
shellfish
stone tools
Animal bones
stone tools
Graeme Pretty
The Roonka site was excavated by former SA Museum staff member, Graeme Pretty from 1969 to 1984. This extensive open site excavation began at Roonka Flat on the Murray River, Lower Murray Valley region, South Australia. Excavation focused on a series of low, deflated sand dunes. A significant amount of stone tools, animal bones, shellfish and other organics were retrieved through excavation. Roonka is best known as a burial site and approximately 200 individuals were retrieved from the main excavation trenches. Occupation and burial cluster between 4,000 to 7,000 years ago, but the oldest burial is associated with an OSL date of 20,000BP. The site was occupied into post contact times, as witnessed by the presence of pearl buttons and a clay pipe with one burial.
Prior to 1969 numerous salvages were made by SAM staff of surface material as it eroded from the dune.
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'Roonka; fugitive traces and climatic mischief' (2009) edited by Keryn Walshe. Current doctoral investigation of human remains by Rebekah Candy, University of Adelaide, South Australia.
Roonka Dune
Roonka Flat, Murray River, Lower Murray Valley, South Australia
20000 BP
4,000 BP
SAMA 12
Sayers Collection
David Morney Sayers
Sayers
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
burial poles
death & dying (humans)
Aboriginal material culture
axe
bag
Bags
basket
boomerang
Ceremonial objects
club
container
cordage
D.M. Sayers
drawing
early 20th century
fire-making
food
knife
material
medical
message
musical instrument
narcotic
ornament
Painting
pigment
plume
pukumani poles
shield
sorcery
spear
spear-thrower
tools
toy
tunga baskets
watercraft
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Basketwork
Ceremonial objects
Ceremonies
Indigenous medicine
sorcery
water transport
Anthropological specimens
Ceremonial objects
Containers
Drawings
Edged Weapons
musical instruments
Ornaments
paintings
tools
watercraft
weapons
David Morney Sayers
More than 670 Aboriginal artefacts collected by D.M. Sayers from Melville and Bathurst Islands, N.T.
Collection represents the first detailed material culture survey of Melville and Bathurst Islands, with the earliest and most complete collection of funerary (pukumani) poles and associated objects.
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Sayers was a mining agent and merchant, based in Adelaide. During his survey trips he collected ethnographic material, probably with the assistance of Joe Cooper, buffalo shooter on Melville Island. Unfortunately, collection is poorly documented, but is contemporaneous with that gathered and documented by W.B. Spencer (also with Cooper's assistance), now in Museum Victoria. Related Collections: Collection lists, correspondence in S.A. Museum Archives, State Records Office, S.A.
Melville Island
Bathurst Island
Arnhem Land coast
Northern territory
1907
1914
SAMA 37
Seton Rockshelter Assemblage
Seton
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
charcoal
stone tools
tools
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Excavations (Archaeology)
tools
Animal bones
archaeological excavation
bone tools
charcoal
Excavation Assemblage
rockshelter
stone tools
bone tools
stone tools
Ron Lampert
Seton Rockshelter on Kangaroo Island was excavated by archaeologist Ron Lampert in the 1980s. He revealed the oldest occupational layer found on Kangaroo Island. The site yielded stone tools (mostly small quartz implements), bone tools, animal bones and charcoal. Occupation was found to span from about 18,000 to 9,500 years ago. This site is one of only two rockshelters excavated on Kangaroo Island.
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'The Great Kartan Mystery' (1988) by Ron Lampert, Terra Australis Series, ANU Press, Canberra.
Kangaroo Island
1980
SAMA 17
Shepherdson Collection
Harold U. ('Sheppy') Shepherdson
Shepherdson
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Bark paintings
food
Aboriginal material culture
Australian Aboriginal material culture
axe
bag
Bags
Bark paintings
basket
boomerang
Ceremonial objects
club
container
cordage
early 20th century
fire-making
food
H.U. Shepherdson
knife
material
medical
message
musical instrument
narcotic
ornament
pigment
plume
shield
sorcery
spear
spear-thrower
toy
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
bark painting
Ceremonial objects
Drugs
Indigenous foods
Indigenous medicine
musical instruments
Pigments
sorcery
Toys
Anthropological specimens
Bark paintings
Ceremonial objects
Containers
Edged Weapons
Personal adornments
Projectile weapons
tools
Toys
weapons
Ella Shepherdson
Harold U. (Sheppy) Shepherdson
Close to 700 Aboriginal artefacts collected by H.U. Shepherdson, mainly at Elcho Island and Milingimbi, N.T between 1929 and 1934.
Representative collection of the material culture of the Elcho Island people.
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Further information may be found in specimen documentation files, and in correspondence between N.B. Tindale and H.U. Shepherdson. See also Ella Shepherdson, 1981 Half a Century in Arnhem Land (One Tree Hill, S.A.). Related collection notes: Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives (collection lists, photographs).
Howard Island
Glyde River
Cape Stewart
Galiwin'ku
Crocodile island
Elcho Island
Arnhem Land
Castlereagh Bay
Goyder River
Milingimbi
1927
1935
SAMA 42
Spear Collection
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
spears
weapons
Aboriginal material culture
harpoon
Mid 19th Century to present
point
spear
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
weapons
Edged Weapons
spears
Over 4750 Aboriginal spears from all Australian states and the Northern Territory
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Queensland
Western Australia
Victoria
New Soutth Wales
Tasmania
South Australia
Northern Territory
1850
2010
SAMA 1
Sultan of Johore Jubilee Exhibition Collection
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Anthropological specimens
Clothing
Domestic equipment
Fishing equipment
Footwear
Headwear
Hunting and gathering tools
Models
musical instruments
tools
weapons
Artefacts
body adornments and alterations
Exhibits
Fishing
Hunting
Indigenous peoples
musical instruments
water transport
Ethnographic
Malaya
Queen's Jubilee Exhibition
Sultan of Johore
ethnology
household objects
indigenous artefacts
Sultan of Johore
Exhibits at the 1887 Queen's Jubilee Exhibition in Adelaide, donated to the South Australian Museum. c. 130 objects of Malay origin, including models of watercraft, houses, a loom and a bed. Tools, domestic items, hunting and fishing equipment, weapons, musical instruments, betel (areca) nut chewing equipment, clothing, shoes, hats ands natural products.
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Researched in 1997 by (Dr) Gordon Copland, then a graduate student at Flinders University of South Australia. Most of the collection has been photographed and part was exhibited in conjunction with some of the SA Museum's Fiji collections in the context of 'A Restless Life', an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Adolph Gustav Plate (1874-1914) hosted by the Flinders University City Gallery during Nov 1997-Jan 1998.
Malaya
1881
1892
SAMA 2
Theodore Bevan Papuan Gulf Collection
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Anthropological specimens
Containers
Masks
musical instruments
Personal adornments
weapons
Artefacts
body adornments and alterations
Exhibits
Fishing
Indigenous peoples
musical instruments
Ethnographic
Papuan Gulf
Queen's Jubilee Exhibition
Theodore Bevan
ethnology
indigenous artefacts
Theodore Bevan
Exhibits at the 1887 Queen's Jubilee Exhibition in Adelaide, purchased by the South Australian Museum. c.90 objects, mostly from the eastern Papuan Gulf region of Papua New Guinea. Includes carved and painted cult objects, masks, musical instruments, weapons, fishing equipment, body ornaments, containers, etc.
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Researched by Barry Craig; publication pending (late 2010): 'Scenes hidden from other eyes' - Theodore Bevan's collection from the Gulf of Papua in the South Australian Museum. The Artefact. About half the collection has been positively identified and photographed and has been on exhibit in the South Australian Museum for at least 100 years. Bevan published an account of his experiences in British New Guinea (Papua) in 1890: Toil, Travel and Discovery in British New Guinea. Masks in this collection are from first contact between 'European' explorers and the inland Namau of the Purari Delta. Related External Collections: A 'sister' collection from Bevan's 1887 'Victory' expedition is in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, and a few pieces are in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. Archival material (including photographs) is held in the Royal Geographical Society in London and the Mitchell Library in Sydney.
Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea.
Elema villages, Papua New Guinea
Vailala, Papua New Guinea
Orokolo, Papua New Guinea
Motu Motu, Papua New Guinea
Kikori River, Papua New Guinea
1887
SAMA 41
Toa Collection
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Aboriginal artefacts
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
Aboriginal material culture
Cooper Creek
MacDonnell range
O. Liebler
Pre 1905
Reuther
Toa
Aboriginal peoples
Artefacts
Pastor Johann Georg Reuther
Pastor Oskar Liebler
Toa
391 Aboriginal toa objects mainly collected by Pastor Johann Georg Reuther, but also by Pastor Oskar Liebler.
Toas are small composite and painted artefacts made by members of the Diyari and collected by Lutheran Missionary Johann Reuther at the Killalpaninna Mission in South Australia beginning in 1904.
Reuther claimed they were use as 'signposts' on vacating a camp to tell those following where they had gone. Each toa thus represented a particular place, by way of its carved shape and painted detail.
The toas combined Aboriginal and European technologies and were made within a frontier context at the mission. They often used gypsum as substrate for painting and incorporating object such as shells, gypsum paste also hid European methods of joining pieces of wood which provided the armature. Gypsum was often used in Aboriginal mourning ceremonies.
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See `Art and Land' (1986) by P. Jones & P. Sutton. Further information may be found in specimen document files. Related Collection notes: Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives collections
1905
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AA 80
Townsend Duryea (AA 80)
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Aboriginal peoples
photographers
Photography
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
photographers
Portrait photography
Photographs
Sepia photographs
Townsend Duryea
The South Australian Museum Archive holds 4 rare original prints by Duryea (relating to Aboriginal people), as well as some reproduction negatives and prints.
Townsend Duryea was born in 1823, Glencoe, New York, United States of America. Townsend Duryea was trained as an artist, an engineer and a photographer. Duryea's skill, professionalism and success as a photographer were well known throughout South Australia, Duryea's career was cut short by a fire that destroyed his studio and some 50,000 negatives, almost his entire life's work. The South Australian Museum Archive holds 4 rare original prints by Duryea, as well as some reproduction negatives and prints.
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Adelaide, South Australia
Kadina, South Auustralia
1855
1988
SAMA 23
Watson Stereographic Photographic collection
Western Base Stereographic Collection
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Andrew Douglas Watson
Andrew Watson
Antarctic Expeditions
Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE)
Western Base
Antarctic regions
Antarctica
Exploration
Photography
Antarctic workers
expeditions
Explorers
geography & travel
Photography
Photographs
Stereo photographs
Andrew Watson, a member of the Western Base party, took 51 photographs in a Postcard Stereo format (3 ½ x 5 ? inches or 87 x 140mm) which provide a fascinating glimpse of life at this remote base in 3D.
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Antarctica
Winter Quarters (Shackleton Ice Shelf)
Antarctic
On board Aurora (the AAE was a ship-based and multiple land-based venture, 1911-14)
1911
1914
SAMA 28
Wilkins Inuit Collection
Stefansson Canadian Arctic Expedition Collection
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Canadian Arctic Expedition
George Hubert Wilkins
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Twenty Inuit artefacts, including compound bow and arrows, blades, scrapers etc, collected by George Hubert Wilkins, photographer on the CAE. Wilkins learnt invaluable survival skills from the Inuit on this expedition in which so many of the scientists died.
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On loan from the Museum's Foreign Ethnology Collection
possibly sub-Arctic
1913
1916