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Mountford Collection

Also known as: Mountford
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S.A. Museum; State Library of South Australia

S.A. Museum; State Library of South Australia

Brief description

More than 1000 Aboriginal artefacts collected by C.P. Mountford, includes collections made during the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, and Mountford's 1952

Full description

Collection's strengths: bark paintings, crayon drawings, wooden sculptures

Notes

See Mountford C.P. 1956 Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land Vol.1: Art, Myth and Symbolism, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne; and Mountford, C.P. 1958. The Tiwi. Their Art, Myth and Ceremony Phoenix House, London.. Further information in specimen documentation files, S.A. Museum, and in the Mountford-Sheard Collection, State Library of South Australia. See also M. Lamshed Monty (Adelaide, 1972) and Philip Jones, 'Mountford, Charles Pearcy (1890 - 1976)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 431-433. Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives collections; includes a large selection of Aboriginal crayon drawings. Entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150500b.htm

Data time period: 1920 to 1969

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Spatial Coverage And Location

text: Warburton Range (W.A.)

text: Northern Territory

text: Western Australia

text: South Australia

text: Northern Australia

text: Central Australia

text: Milingimbi

text: Groote Eylandt

text: Yirrkalla

text: Oenpelli

text: Melville Island

text: Arnhem Land

text: Nepabunna

Subjects
1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land | Aboriginal artefacts | Aboriginal culture | Aboriginal material culture | Aboriginal peoples | Aboriginal peoples (Australians) | Anthropological specimens | Artefacts | Bags | Bark paintings | C.P. Mountford | Ceremonial objects | Charles Pearcy (Monty) Mountford | Crayon drawing | Drawings | Exploration | Mid-20th century | Ornaments | Painting | Sculpture | Sculptures | axe | bag | bark painting | basket | boomerang | club | container | cordage | drawing | expeditions | fire-making | food | geography & travel | knife | material | medical | message | musical instrument | narcotic | ornament | pigment | plume | shield | sorcery | spear | spear-thrower | tools | toy | weapons |

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