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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Field notebooks and data relating to Australian Archaeology and Anthropology

Archive Collections / Dr Eustace Couper Black / Series AA 31/01 / Field notebooks and data relating to Australian Archaeology and Anthropology

This series also includes handwritten and typescript notes, reports and other material, including the following items:

  1. Handwritten notes by Black entitled 'Notes on the X-ray findings of a large quantity of shell particles in the intestinal contents of a mummified body of an Aborigine found at Kongarati Cave near Second Valley, March 1934'. Attached to these notes are a report from the radiographer at the Adelaide Hospital and some handwritten notes on dentition from TD Campbell (see AA 52).

  2. Typed notes by Black providing an account of the BAR trip to Ooldea in 1938, including a description of the mission and reference to the 'Andingiri' tribe (= Antakirinja).

  3. Typed notes by Black describing an incident during the 1938 BAR trip to Ooldea when a rumour reached the Aboriginal people there that 'wild' Aboriginal people were on their way to Ooldea from the north to kill all the people there.

  4. Typed notes by Black (pp. 2, 5-6 - other pages missing) relating to burial customs at Ooldea, mythology connected with Pidinga Rockhole and the fear of the 'wild natives' from the north.

  5. Handwritten notes by Black on Aboriginal campsites and artefacts from Yandama Creek, north of Lake Frome (October 1947) and correspondence relating to his fieldwork in that area.

  6. Typed undated report by anonymous author (Ned?) describing a visit to Aboriginal sites in the Gawler Ranges area. This report includes references to an extensive stone arrangement and quarry site on Yantanabie Station (near Wirrulla), as well as Aboriginal campsites in the Smoky Bay area. The author also visted a number of Aboriginal sites including rockholes, campsites and ochre sources in the 'Pinjarra Lakes' area, west of the western end of the Gawler Ranges. According to a local pastoralist, the rockholes in the Pinjarra Lakes area were connected to a Dreaming story that began in the Warburton Range (WA) and extended to the Flinders Ranges.

  7. Hand-drawn sketch map by HM Cooper (see AA 64) showing location of some Aboriginal archaeological sites near Boolcunda Creek and Wirreanda Creek, north of Quorn in the Flinders Ranges.

  8. Hand-drawn sketch map by HM Cooper showing location of some Aboriginal archaeological sites in the Hallett Cove area.

  9. Set of 53 campsite cards, partially completed, for Aboriginal archaeological sites including Port Augusta, Mt Woodroofe, Finniss River (SA), Hawk's Nest (Kangaroo Island), Rocky River (Kangaroo Island), Ooldea, Kenmore Park, Chowilla, Nine Mile Creek or Stephens Creek (north of Broken Hill), Lake Victoria (NSW), Lake Menindie (NSW), Balekah Creek (NSW), Albemarle (NSW) and Lake Bancannia (NSW).

Creator: Dr Eustace Couper Black
Control: AA 31/1/2
Date Range:  1934  -  1967
Formats: Sketches, Notebooks, Loose Notes
Series:  AA 31/01
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