17. Description of Ayers Rock |
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| Title : | 17. Description of Ayers Rock |
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| Creator : | Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976 | ||
| Source : | Mountford, Charles P., PRG 1218/5/3 page 32 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1935 | ||
| Format : | Diary | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Entry by C. P. Mountford describing his first uninterrupted view of Ayers Rock (Uluru). It was recorded in the private diary he kept while acting as Secretary to the Commonwealth Board of Enquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of Aboriginal people near Ayers Rock (Uluru), in 1935. |
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| Related names : | Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976 |
| Coverage year : | 1935 |
| Region : | Northern Territory |
| Further reading : | Breeden, Stanley. Uluru : looking after Uluru-Kata Tjuta the Anangu way, East Roseville, N.S.W. : Simon & Schuster Australia, 1994 Lamshed, Max. 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, Adelaide : Rigby, 1972, pp. 36-40 Layton, Robert. Uluru : an Aboriginal history of Ayers Rock, Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 1989 Mountford, Charles P. Brown men and red sand : journeyings in wild Australia, London ; Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1981, c1948 Mountford, Charles P. 'Papers relating to Commonwealth Board of Enquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of Aborigines near Ayers Rock [Uluru]', PRG 1218/5 Warden, James. 'T.G.H. Strehlow and the 1935 Board of Inquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of Aborigines' in Traditions in the midst of change : communities, cultures and the Strehlow legacy in Central Australia : proceedings of the Strehlow Conference, Alice Springs 18-20 September 2002, Alice Springs, N.T. : Strehlow Research Centre, 2004, pp. 89-100 |
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