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Title
File 08: Walkabout magazine : Northern Territory photographs [rural stations, pearling, Pitchi Richi, Aboriginal art, Hatches Creek, Mount Riddock, Aboriginal ceremony]
Call number
PXA 907/Box 98
Level of description
file
Date

1941-1965
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
413294
Physical Description
58 photographic prints - 22 x 27 cm or smaller
Scope and Content
Numbers in brackets = original Walkabout negative numbers

RURAL STATIONS

1. [Homestead and] vegetable garden, Alice Springs, n.d. / (P.5050)
2. Hamilton River stockyards, approx. 55 miles north of Oodnadatta, n.d. / (G.2343)
3. Newcastle Waters cattle station, n.d. / (5063)
4. Daly Waters station, n.d. / (5065)
5. Marrakai Station homestead, n.d. / ANTA (5180)
6. [Veranda of timber country house], n.d.

PEARLING

7. [Pearl diver in the water with his net], n.d. / (4114)
8-10. Japanese pearling mother ship, n.d. / ANTA (P.5166 P.5167 P.5168)
11. Pearling luggers [Fujimaru and unidentified], Darwin Harbour, n.d. / ANTA (P.5169)
12. Japanese lugger [Takachinomaru] captured and brought to Darwin by Government patrol boat Larrakia for landing on prohibited Aboriginal reserves in Arnhem Land, n.d. / ANTA (5233)

PITCHI RICHI SANCTUARY

13-19. [Tourists admire the sculpture of Aboriginal Australians by William Ricketts, Pitchi-Richi Sanctuary], 1964-1965 / H.Mercer (748 750) D.Baglin for ATC (2620) John Brace (2865 2869) ANTA by D.Beal (film no.54)

ABORIGINAL ROCK ART

20-25. Aboriginal paintings, Ayers Rock and N'Dhala Gorge, n.d. / ANTA by D.Beal (761 1841 1842 film no.47)
26. [Australian story teller, Bill Harney, explains Aboriginal legends in cave, Ayers Rock], n.d. / H.Mercer (762)
27. Cave paintings, Ayers Rock, n.d. / ANTA (1840)
28. [Safari tour leader from Darwin discusses Arnhem Land cave paintings with Aboriginal Australians], n.d. / Photographic Illustrators by E.McQuillan (3394)

TUNGSTEN MINE, HATCHES CREEK

29-31. Aboriginal labourers, wolfram mine (for tungsten extraction), Aug 1941 / R.Dunstan for ANPA (P.4528 P.4532 4536)
32. Dr Buller Murphy and her mine manager, Aug 1941 / R.Dunstan (P.4537)
33. Italian miner [reading paper in his tent], Aug 1941 / R.Dunstan (P.4539)
34. [Miner, Aug 1941] / (4545)
35. [Miners drinking wine in the shadehouse], Aug 1941 / R.Dunstan (P.4551)
36. [Miner with water bag and lamp], Aug 1941 / R.Dunstan (P.4555)
37-38. [Italian miner tending grapevine and vegetable garden], Aug 1941 / R.Dunstan (P.4556 P.4564)
39. [Miners near the shadehouse after their shift], Aug 1941 / R.Dunstan (P.4568)
40. [Women at the window of] miner's home of interlaced boughs, Aug 1941 / R.Dunstan (P.4573)
41. Aboriginal camp, Aug 1941 / R.Dunstan (P.4574)

MICA MINE, MOUNT RIDDOCK

42-44. [Stacked mica, the mine and miners], n.d. / ANPA/ANTA (P.5014 P.5016 P.5017)

ABORIGINAL CEREMONY

45-46. Ngerakum, ceremony of girl arriving at marriageable age and "singing" out the evil spirits, Sept 1947 / J.K. Ewers (G.2223 G.2224)
47. March of the Wargaitj: bunching together, the men advance with dancing step, Sept 1947 / J.K. Ewers (G.2225)
48. Mosik's hunting dance, Sept 1947 / J.K. Ewers (G.2230)
49. [Funeral]: grave [and totem] covered with bushes and while dancing was in progress, [Aboriginal Australian] entered the bushes and examined the bark-covered grave for cause of death, later announcing result to the headman, Melville Island, Sept 1947 / J.K. Ewers (G.2231)
50. [Aboriginal men start the alligator (crocodile ?) dance as the shadows lengthen, the prone figure representing the alligator], Sept 1947 / ANTA (G.2237)
51. Woman with face decorated for a Pukumani, Melville Island, Sept 1947 / J.K. Ewers (G.2238)
52. [Aboriginal Australian men dance] ... Bang Tail Muster Festival, Aug 1964 / ANIB by N.Murray (2689)
53. Aboriginal corroboree, n.d. / (P.4117)
54. Aborigines campfire, Bathurst Island, n.d. / (P.5118)
55. Aboriginal chief preparing for corroboree, Bathurst Island, n.d. / (P.5130)
56-57. Aboriginal campfire, Bathurst Island, [pre-1949] / (P.5134 P.6279)
58. [Four of forty-five full blood Aboriginal didgeridoo players from three Arnhem Land tribes] in the ballet "Aboriginal Theatre" presented Sydney/Melbourne by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in association with the welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration, [ca. 1964] / ANIB by K.Byron
Copying Conditions
Copyright restrictions may apply:
Copyright holder:: Tourism Australia
Rights and Restrictions Information:: On behalf of Tourism Australia, the State Library of New South Wales is authorised to approve reproduction and use of all images in this collection, for publication and broadcast (all media), without further consultation.
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Tourism Australia
Creator/Author/Artist
Australian National Publicity Association
Australian National Travel Association
Australian News and Information Bureau
Beal, David, 1936-2024
Brace, John Robert
Byron, Keith
Douglass Baglin Pty. Ltd.
Dunstan, Roy
Ewers, John K. (John Keith), 1904-1978
McQuillan, Ern, 1926-2018
Mercer, Harry
Murray, Neil
Photographic Illustrators
Name
Aboriginal Theatre (theatrical production)
Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust.
Buller-Murphy, Deborah, 1888-1965
Fujimaru (pearling lugger)
Harney, Bill
Ricketts, William
Takachinomaru (pearling lugger)
Walkabout (periodical)
Subject
Adult Females
Adult Males
children
Topic
interiors
Aboriginal art
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
aerial photographs
cattle stations
deep-sea divers
farms
homesteads
mica mines
miners
pearlers (fishing boats)
sculptures
verandas
wolframite mines
Place
Bathurst Island (N.T.)
Daly Waters (N.T.)
Hatches Creek (N.T.)
Marrakai (N.T.)
Melville Island (N.T.)
Newcastle Waters (N.T.)
Pitchi-Richi Sanctuary (Alice Springs, N.T.)
Riddock, Mount (N.T.)
Uluru (N.T.)
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