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29. Desert party packs specimens
Title : 29. Desert party packs specimens 29. Desert party packs specimens
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Creator : Kinnear, A. C.
Source : Mountford, Charles P., PRG 1218/9/2
Date of creation : 1938
Format : Diary
Contributor : State Library of South Australia
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From the Advertiser, 30 August 1938.

Update from press correspondent AC Kinnear reporting on the progress of a South Australian Government expedition sent to the Simpson Desert to search for possible remains of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt.


In this, his last transmission, Kinnear reported that the party would spend its final day packing their effects and the specimens they had gathered and would then board the train at Abminga late on the evening of 30 August.

This report also details some of the recordings made by Mountford with the local Aborigial men. Recordings that, Mountford regarded as "the finest recordings of Aboriginal folk songs yet obtained in Central Australia." (This ethnographic work did not form part of the sizable donation of material Mountford made to the State Library between 1959-1970, and any information on its whereabouts would be gratefully received).

Grenfell Price had also been working on a premlinary report of findings that he hoped to submit shortly after their return.
Related names :

Campbell, T. D. (Thomas Draper), 1893-1967
Lowe, Edwin
Lowe, Rex
Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976
Price, A. Grenfell (Archibald Grenfell), 1892-1977
Smith, Arthur Dickinson

Coverage year : 1938
Region : Flinders Ranges and Far North - Outback
Further reading :
Connell, Gordon. The mystery of Ludwig Leichhardt. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1980

Lamshed, Max. 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, Adelaide : Rigby, 1972, pp. 56-60

Mountford, Charles P. 'Papers relating to the South Australian Government Expedition to search for the remains of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt', PRG 1218/9

Price, A. Grenfell. The Mystery of Leichhardt : the South Australian government expedition of 1938, South Australia : Royal Geographical Society, 1937-38

Roderick, Colin. Leichhardt, the dauntless explorer, North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1988
Internet links :
Australian Dictionary of Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt

National Museum of Australia. Leichhardt: the man, the mystery, the science, the history [symposium held in 2007]

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