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Description of collecting crayon drawngs : [journal entry]
Title : Description of collecting crayon drawngs : [journal entry] Description of collecting crayon drawngs : [journal entry]
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Creator : Charles P Mountford
Source : Mountford, Charles P., PRG 1218/11/1 p. 55
Place Of Creation : Ernabella
Date of creation : 1940
Format : Photograph
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A description from Charles Mountford's journal notes describing his interations with children of the Ernabella Mission School during the 1940 University of Adelaide Expedition to Central Australia. Mountford provided the children with brown paper and crayons and asked them to produce drawings, which he collected as part of his ethnographic work.


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Related names :

Mountford, Charles P, (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976

Coverage year : 1940
Region : Flinders Ranges and Far North - Outback
Further reading :

James, Diana. Painting the song : Kaltjiti artists of the sand dune country, Fitzroy, Vic. : McCulloch & McCulloch Australian Art Books, 2009

Lamshed, Max. 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, [Adelaide] : Rigby, 1972

Mountford, Charles, P. Brown men and red sand : journeyings in wild Australia, London ; Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1981, c1948


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