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The Adelaide University Field Expedition to Macumba, South Australia and Stuart Town (Alice Springs), Northern Territory, during 30 December 1926 - 19 January 1927.
Expedition personnel & roles:
Thomas Draper Campbell - leader (Physical anthropology) (AA 52),
William Ray (Physiology & pathology)
John Burton Cleland (Blood grouping, pathology, botanical work) (AA 60),
CJ Hackett (Physical anthropology) (AA122)
Edward Harold Davies (Songs & music) (AA 70),
FA Jeffery (Cinematography) (AA 155),
Edward Wheewall Holden (Transport, Climatological records, assistant to physical anthropology) (AA135)
The expedition party made base camps at 'Ross Waterhole, on Macumba Station, and about 40 miles north-east of Oodnadatta; [and] Stuart Town, [Alice Springs] Central Australia.'
Further reading:
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Vol 51 (1927), pages 65-92.
CONTAINS RESTRICTED MATERIAL
Photographs
Photographs by CJ Hackett of the Macumba expedition while a member of the Adelaide University Field Expedition 30 December 1926 - 19 January 1927.
Photographs were removed from album wallet (see AA 122/08/3). The index as per the album wallet records that the first 100 are of Macumba and 101-200 relate to Alice Springs.
Photographs that have been matched with a negative will share the same series number.
Photographs 130 - 138 are oversized photographs and are located in the map drawer in Archives.
Negatives - Nitrate
Nitrate negatives for the majority of photographs have been matched/sighted and will share the same series/inventory number.
Nitrate negatives not matched with photographs but identified as belonging to this series will be alloted an inventory number, described, scanned and printed.
Nitrate negatives located in the nitrate compacters.