All titles have been extracted from Mountfords notebooks and recorded in the Anthropology Register (Vol 8)

Charles Pearcy Mountford 1890-1976

Following a successful joint National Geographic Society, Smithsonian Institution and Australian Government expedition to arnhem Land in 1948, a further National Geographic Society sponsored expedition to Melville Island again led by Charles Mountford occurred in 1954.
The study was premised on the principle .."before these Stone age hunters and gatherers customs and unparralled ceremonies are lost forever, we must record them..."
Membership was much sparser than in 1948.

Charles Mountford leader photographer, anthropologist
David Parsons ethnologist University of Pennsylvania
Jane Goodale ethnologist University of Pennsylvania
Brian Daily geologist University of Adelaide
William Harney guide and mentor
George Joy cook

The expedition lasted 5 months
Carleton Coon anthropologist University of Pennsylvania and his wife
Assoc Justice William Douglas U.S.A.Supreme Court made a 10 day visit. During Coon's visit, he made extensive body measurementsand took temperature to determine how natives adapted so well to hot days and cold nights, on behalf of the U.S.Army to help study protection for fighting men in extremes of temperature under combat.
The group has studied and reported on ceremony, dance and especially as this related to funeral rites.
This collection consists of 59 chalk on paper drawings.
Sheets of brown paper and materials available locally were provided.
Registration number of artist, expedition number and details of painting were recorded.