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Sayers Collection

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Brief description

More than 670 Aboriginal artefacts collected by D.M. Sayers from Melville and Bathurst Islands, N.T.

Notes

Sayers was a mining agent and merchant, based in Adelaide. During his survey trips he collected ethnographic material, probably with the assistance of Joe Cooper, buffalo shooter on Melville Island. Unfortunately, collection is poorly documented, but is contemporaneous with that gathered and documented by W.B. Spencer (also with Cooper's assistance), now in Museum Victoria. Related Collections: Collection lists, correspondence in S.A. Museum Archives, State Records Office, S.A.

Significance

Collection represents the first detailed material culture survey of Melville and Bathurst Islands, with the earliest and most complete collection of funerary (pukumani) poles and associated objects.

Data time period: 1907 to 1914

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text: Melville Island

text: Bathurst Island

text: Arnhem Land coast

text: Northern territory

Subjects
Aboriginal artefacts | Aboriginal culture | Aboriginal material culture | Aboriginal peoples | Aboriginal peoples (Australians) | Anthropological specimens | Artefacts | Bags | Basketwork | Ceremonial objects | Ceremonies | Containers | D.M. Sayers | David Morney Sayers | Drawings | Edged Weapons | Indigenous medicine | Ornaments | Painting | axe | bag | basket | boomerang | burial poles | club | container | cordage | death & dying (humans) | drawing | early 20th century | fire-making | food | knife | material | medical | message | musical instrument | musical instruments | narcotic | ornament | paintings | pigment | plume | pukumani poles | shield | sorcery | spear | spear-thrower | tools | toy | tunga baskets | water transport | watercraft | weapons |

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