12. Retrieving sunk Expedition gear, Bickerton Island |
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| Title : | 12. Retrieving sunk Expedition gear, Bickerton Island |
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| Creator : | Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976, photographer | ||
| Source : | PRG 1218/34/2887 | ||
| Place Of Creation : | Arnhem Land | ||
| Date of creation : | 1948 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 60 x 60 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
An aboriginal man retrieving Expedition gear from partically submerged dinghy, off Bickerton Island, during the 1948 American- Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Whilst based on Groote Eylandt, Margaret McArthur established a nutritional survey camp on Bickerton Island, located just to the north west of Groote Eylandt. Ray Specht, the Botanist, also worked from this location, and Mountford made a brief visit there. This image further illustrates some of the many difficulties experienced with the transport of supplies for the Expedition. Boxes of gear, perhaps for the nutrition survey or botany work, float in the sea whilst an Aboriginal man picks them out of the water. |
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| Related names : | American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, (1948) |
| Coverage year : | 1948 |
| Place : | Arnhem Land |
| Region : | Northern Territory |
| Further reading : | American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, (1948). Records of the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land, Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1956-1964 Lamshed, Max. 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, Adelaide : Rigby, 1972 May, Sally K. Collecting cultures : myth, politics, and collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition, Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, 2010 |
| Internet links : | Web Links: Angurugu Community Government Council - Groote Eylandt Community |
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