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Francis Gillen Collection

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Brief description

More 500 Aboriginal artefacts collected by F.J.Gillen from central and north-central Australia.

Full description

F.J. Gillen is recognised as one of Australia's pioneer anthropologists, in partnership with the zoologist and museum director W.B. Spencer.

Notes

Original object lists in specimen documentation files; collection documentation (of like or actual objects) in W.B. Spencer and F.J. Gillen (1899) Native Tribes of Central Australia, Macmillan, London and, for example, F.J. Gillen (1968) Gillen's Diary: The Camp Jottings of F. J. Gillen on the Spencer and Gillen Expedition Across Australia, 1901-1902. State Library of S.A., Adelaide. Online note: Under development (comprehensive website with digitised resources relating to Spencer and Gillen). Related Collections: Gillen photograph albums, glass-plate negatives and glass slides, collection lists, one field notebook, correspondence held in the SAM Archives (AA108; AA93; AA298); Gillen journals and field notes also held in Special Collections, Barr Smith Library at the University of Adelaide and in PRG 456, State Library of South Australia. W.B. Spencer's journals, photographs and ethnographic collections (complementary to Gillen's) are held in several institutions, but notably Museum Victoria. For Gillen's biographical entry, see http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090007b.htm

Significance

Collection is centred upon the material culture of the Arrernte peoples, mainly collected by Gillen at and near Alice Springs, N.T., during the 1890s, but also in partnership with W.B. Spencer during the 1901-1902 Spencer-Gillen Expedition, from Oodnadatta to Borroloola.

Data time period: 1890 to 1902

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Spatial Coverage And Location

text: Alice Springs

text: Tennant Creek

text: Wycliffe River

text: Central Australia

text: MacDonnell Ranges

text: Crown Point

text: Charlottte Waters

text: Finke River

text: Hanson River

text: Barrow Creek

Subjects
Aboriginal artefacts | Aboriginal culture | Aboriginal peoples | Aboriginal peoples (Australians) | Anthropological specimens | Artefacts | Australian Aboriginal material culture | Bags | Ceremonial objects | Containers | Documents | Drugs | Edged Weapons | F.J. Gillen | Francis James Gillen | Indigenous medicine | Late 19th and early 20th centuries | Manuscripts | Personal adornments | Photographs | Photography | Projectile weapons | Toys | axe | bag | basket | boomerang | club | container | cordage | fire-making | knife | material | medical | message | musical instrument | musical instruments | narcotic | ornament | plume | shield | sorcery | spear | spear-thrower | tjurunga | tools | toy | waninga | weapons |

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  • Local : SAMA 14