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Photographs relating to the Diamantina expedition 1931

Archive Collections / Hedley Herbert Finlayson / Series AA93/1 / Photographs relating to the Diamantina expedition 1931

This item consists of five black and white photographic prints of 'Wongkonguru' and 'Yarliyanda' Australian Aboriginal people. The photographs were taken in December 1931 during Finlayson's expedition to the Diamantina region in far north-east South Australia in search of the Desert Rat-Kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris). Finlayson's diaries indicate that the Australian Aboriginal people depicted in this group of photographs were residing and working at the camp of Lou Reese from Appamunna Station. Reese had sent Finlayson a skin and skull of the Caloprymnus campestris in September 1931. Each of the following print is annotated with a Negative number but the Negatives are not held by the South Australian Museum:

  1. 'Jimmy'
    Print of an Australian Aboriginal man. Handwritten notes, describing him as 'Wongkonguru Tribe', on the reverse side. Jimmy was a member of Finlayson's 1932 expedition party and is mentioned in Finlayson, HH 1935 The Red Centre: Man and Beast in the Heart of Australia, Angus & Robertson, Sydney.
    Negative No. 225

  2. 'Old Billy'
    Print of an Australian Aboriginal man. Handwritten notes, describing him as 'Wongkonguru Tribe', on the reverse side.
    Negative No. 226

  3. 'Butcher'
    Print of an Australian Aboriginal man. Handwritten notes, describing him as 'Yarliyanda Tribe', on the reverse side. Butcher was a member of Finlayson's party on the 1932 Diamantina expedition and he is mentioned in The Red Centre: Man and Beast in the Heart of Australia.
    Negative No. 227

  4. 'Wari Wari'
    Print of an Australian Aboriginal woman. Handwritten notes, describing her as 'Yarliyanda Tribe', on reverse side.
    Negative No. 228

  5. 'Dorothy, George, Melva and Topsy'
    Print of four Australian Aboriginal people. Handwritten notes, describing them as 'Wongkanguru Tribe' on reverse side.
    Negative No. 229.



Corresponding Tindale Tribes: Wongkanguru.

Corresponding AIATSIS Language Groups: Yarluyandi; Wangkangurru.

Creator: Hedley Herbert Finlayson
Control: AA 93/1/1-5
Date Range:  1931  -  1931
Quantity:  5cm,   1   part Albox folder: black and white photographic prints, 16.5x21.5 cm
Formats: Loose Photographic Prints
Series:  AA93/1
Tindale Tribes:
Wongkanguru
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