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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Natural History Specimens

  1. Closed Trap-door spider hole. (Two black and white photographs)

  2. Close view of closed Trap-door spider hole. (Two black and white photographs)

  3. Open Trap-door spider hole.

  4. Part open Trap-door spider hole.

  5. Silverfish.

  6. 'Slightly magnified view of mouth and nasal cavities'. Unknown animal.

  7. Unknown specimen.

  8. Microscope slide, Melanotaenica migrans.

  9. Colour cells in skin of Pseudophritis urvill.

  10. Gobius Sp.

  11. Mosquito larvae.

  12. Mosquito larvae.

  13. Mosquito larvae.

  14. Mosquito larvae.

  15. Mosquito larvae.

  16. Fish in an aquarium.

  17. Shark specimen held by tail on a jetty.

  18. Shark specimen, beached.

  19. Shark specimen on a jetty with a man holding arms apart.

  20. Fish specimen.

  21. Fish specimen.

  22. Fish specimen.

  23. Fish specimen.

  24. Thorny Devil, at the Adelaide Snake Park, South Australia.

  25. Shingleback Lizard.

  26. Bearded Dragon.

  27. Four-spot Trapdoor spider.

  28. Trap-door spider.

  29. Drone Fly.

  30. Diagram of two insects.

  31. Edge of a bee's wing.

  32. Black and white bird specimen.

  33. Large chick on the ground.

  34. Wader bird.

  35. Cats in a back yard.

  36. 'Kangaroo Island 1925', Koala climbing a tree. (Two black and white photographs)

  37. 'Kangaroo Island 1925', Koala up a tree with joey on its back.

  38. 'Kangaroo Island 1925', Man assisting a koala and joey up a tree.

  39. Wombat.

  40. Sharks tooth showing serrated edges.

  41. Botanical specimen.

  42. Two carrots which have grown twisted together.

  43. 'Hunting overseas', large deceased African animal.

  44. 'Hunting overseas', man holding gun by deceased African elephant.

  45. 'Hunting overseas', man sitting with gun by collection of animal skins and elephant tusks.

  46. 'Hunting overseas', man with working dogs and a deceased jackal caught in a trap.

  47. 'Hunting overseas', One man with gun and one man with spear by a deceased large African animal.

  48. 'Hunting overseas', man with a gun sitting on the deceased body of an African elephant laying on its side.

  49. 'Hunting overseas', man sitting beneath a pair of large African elephant tusks outside a thatched hut.

  50. A piece of baleen from the right side of a whale. (Two black and white photographs)

  51. Two pieces of whale baleen.

  52. Whale bone.

  53. Whale bone.

  54. Shoulder bone of whale. (Two black and white photographs)

  55. Two small serrated teeth.

  56. Decomposing marine carcass. (Two black and white photographs)

  57. Three men standing over a stranded whale carcass, Balaenoptera musculus.

  58. Unknown animal Skull.

  59. Deceased beached whale.

  60. Close up of deceased whale laying on the beach.

  61. Deceased whale with man standing on beach.

  62. Frontal view of deceased whale on beach. (Two black and white photographs)

  63. Different angle of frontal view of deceased whale on beach. (Two black and white photographs)

  64. Man in boat looking out to sea.

  65. Whale carcass with men and a horse and buggy.

  66. Whale carcass with men standing on beach, two men standing on the whale.

  67. Marine animal skull.

  68. Whale vertebrate with two smaller bones.

  69. Three whale bones.

  70. Whale shoulder bone.

  71. Three whale bones including two longer bones. (Two black and white photographs)

  72. Whale vertebrate.

  73. Whale vertebrate and two smaller bones.

  74. Whale vertebrate with disk.

  75. Whale shoulder bone.

  76. Whale vertebrate with XX111 carved into it.

  77. Whale vertebrate.

  78. Whale vertebrate and two smaller bones.

  79. Whale skeleton showing head only, laying on a beach.

  80. Seagull.

  81. Whale oil Try Pot next to a water tank, horse in background.

  82. Whale oil Try Pot next to water tank.

  83. Whale oil Try Pot showing flattened side.

  84. Whale oil Try Pot next to horse trough.

  85. Rusted part of a whale oil Try Pot.

  86. Looking inside a rusted out whale oil Try Pot.

  87. Men on a beach with oil barrels, horse and cart in background with whale carcass next to it.

  88. Looking out from rocky shore to an island.

  89. Deceased marine animal.

  90. People on beach underneath a rock face.

  91. People looking around underneath a rock face.

  92. Large whale skull resting against a table with whale vertebrate set out.

  93. Two pieces of whale bone.

  94. Group of seals on the shore, Auckland Island, New Zealand.

  95. Bones of a whale flipper. (Two black and white photographs)

  96. Whale bones.

  97. Piece of whale baleen.

  98. Seal sitting on a beach, New Zealand.

  99. Seals swimming around rocks, New Zealand.

  100. Two men and two seals on the beach, Macquarie Island.

  101. Man and two seals on the beach, Macquarie Island.

  102. Seal laying on the beach, Macquarie Island.

  103. Seal sitting up on the beach, Macquarie Island.

  104. Man holding a seal. Macquarie Island.

  105. Elephant seal, Macquarie Island.

  106. Dried Sea creature. (Two black and white photographs)

  107. Series of 13 photographs of Mosquito larvae. (Thirteen black and white photographs)

  108. Dried egg casing.

  109. Two dried soil impressions.

CreatorEdgar Ravenswood Waite
ControlAA356/6/4
Quantity   132  
Series AA356/6