Describes young Aboriginal girl and boy with boomerang legs (an anteroposterior curvature of the leg below the knee). References the grant of £300 from the University of Adelaide to to investigate this condition and his departure in a few weeks time for a six month trip into Central and Northern Australia. Annotation in pencil ("Monograph 1 Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1936"). 17 July 1933 arrived Wiluwilura, east of Ilbil (Mt Kintore).

1. Photograph: (JA33: 190) Australian Aboriginal boy with Boomerang legs

2. Photograph: (JA33: 67) three generations of Australian Aboriginal women.

3. Photograph: Nest of House-building rat (greater stick-nest rat) (Leporillus conditor)

Places mentioned: Wiluwilura; Ilbil (Mt Kintore)

Fauna mentioned: House-building rat (greater stick-nest rat) (Leporillus conditor)

Medical condition mentioned: Boomerang Legs (an anteroposterior curvature of the leg below the knee)

CreatorCecil John Hackett
ControlAA 122/1/1/60
Date Range1933  -  1934
Quantity 0.01cm,   3   B&W photographs 40x95 mm, 100x75 mm and 80x55 mm
FormatsMounted Photographic Prints
Series AA 122/01/01