08. 60 Miles west of Erldunda - Mahomed Usef : [journal entry] |
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| Title : | 08. 60 Miles west of Erldunda - Mahomed Usef : [journal entry] |
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| Source : | Mountford, Charles P., PRG 1218/5/2 p. 82 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1935 | ||
| Format : | Manuscript | ||
| Dimensions : | 200 x 335 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
Charles Mountford's notes of the evidence taken from Afghan cameleer Mahomed [Mohomet] Usef near 'Erldunda Station', during the 1935 'Commonwealth Board of Enquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of Aborigines near Ayers Rock'. Mountford acted as secretary to the Enquiry. Mahomet Usef, of the Uluru area, was associated with the Aboriginal people through the trading of dingo scalps. During the Enquiry, Usef was questioned by Mr V.J. White, Assistant Chief Protector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory. |
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| Related names : | Usef, Mohomet Mountford, Charles P, (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976 Commonwealth Board of Enquiry into the alleged ill-treatment of Aborigines near Ayers Rock, 1935
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| Coverage year : | 1935 |
| Period : | 1927-1939 |
| Place : | Central Australia |
| Region : | Northern Territory |
| Further reading : | Lamshed, Max, 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, [Adelaide] : Rigby, 1972 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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