Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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Paul Heinrich Matthias Foelsche

Archive Collections / Paul Heinrich Matthias Foelsche
Born : 30 March, 1831
Died : 31 January, 1914

Foelsche migrated to South Australia in 1856 and was appointed Trooper 3rd Class in the Mounted Police. He married Charlotte Gorgina Smith in Strathalbyn on 5 January 1860, being appointed Sub Inspector in charge of the Northern Territory Mounted Police in 1870.

He made a systematic study of Aboriginal customs and language, which was read to the Royal Society of South Australia as "Notes on the Aborigines of North Australia." on 2 August 1881. Foelsche was a leading photographer of the Northern Territory where his work became the main pictorial record of NT Aboriginal people, scenery and industries.

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