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Shepherdson Collection

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Brief description

Close to 700 Aboriginal artefacts collected by H.U. Shepherdson, mainly at Elcho Island and Milingimbi, N.T between 1929 and 1934.

Full description

Representative collection of the material culture of the Elcho Island people.

Notes

Further information may be found in specimen documentation files, and in correspondence between N.B. Tindale and H.U. Shepherdson. See also Ella Shepherdson, 1981 Half a Century in Arnhem Land (One Tree Hill, S.A.). Related collection notes: Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives (collection lists, photographs).

Data time period: 1927 to 1935

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Spatial Coverage And Location

text: Howard Island

text: Glyde River

text: Cape Stewart

text: Galiwin'ku

text: Crocodile island

text: Elcho Island

text: Arnhem Land

text: Castlereagh Bay

text: Goyder River

text: Milingimbi

Subjects
Aboriginal artefacts | Aboriginal culture | Aboriginal material culture | Aboriginal peoples | Aboriginal peoples (Australians) | Anthropological specimens | Artefacts | Australian Aboriginal material culture | Bags | Bark paintings | Ceremonial objects | Containers | Drugs | Edged Weapons | Ella Shepherdson | H.U. Shepherdson | Harold U. (Sheppy) Shepherdson | Indigenous foods | Indigenous medicine | Personal adornments | Pigments | Projectile weapons | Toys | axe | bag | bark painting | basket | boomerang | club | container | cordage | early 20th century | fire-making | food | knife | material | medical | message | musical instrument | musical instruments | narcotic | ornament | pigment | plume | shield | sorcery | spear | spear-thrower | tools | toy | weapons |

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  • Local : SAMA 17
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