Images taken by Brother Oswald Heinrich, during an expedition lead by Rev. Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht (AA 662) from Hermannsburg (NT) to the Petermann Ranges (WA).

Archive Collections / Mrs Meta Esther Gehling / Images taken by Brother Oswald Heinrich, during an expedition lead by Rev. Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht (AA 662) from Hermannsburg (NT) to the Petermann Ranges (WA).

Date Range: 1939 - 1939

Collection: Mrs Meta Esther Gehling

Quantity: 26 35 mm transparancies

Series Identifier: SAMA 1076/01

Transparancies of Australian Aboriginal people and locations between Hermannsburg and the Petermann Ranges. Some slides are duplicated within the series.

The series comprises copies of slides loaned for duplication and retention by the SA Museum Archives.

The journey and two of the photographs are dealt with in 'A straight-out man. FW Albrecht and Central Australian Aborigines.' Barbara Henson, Melbourne University press, 1994.

Prof. James Gehling added 5 slides to the collection in March 2015.

Included Items

SAMA 1076/1/1 - 'Primitive men with spears. Petermann Ranges 1930's.'

SAMA 1076/1/2 - 'Primitive mothers carrying babies, Petermann Ranges.'

SAMA 1076/1/3/1-2 - Two Australian Aboriginal women.

SAMA 1076/1/4/1-2 - Australian Aboriginal women.

SAMA 1076/1/5/1-2 - Ten Australian Aboriginal people.

SAMA 1076/1/6 - 'Primitive man drinking from water hole.'

SAMA 1076/1/7 - 'Primitive Aboriginal woman, Petermann Ranges, 1930's.'

SAMA 1076/1/8 - Australian Aboriginal woman with seated child.

SAMA 1076/1/9/1-2 - 'Primitive Aboriginals, Petrmann Ranges, 1930's.'

SAMA 1076/1/10 - 'Primitive women carrying babies, and all their worldly goods.'

SAMA 1076/1/11 - 'Lasseter's grave, 1929.'