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Charles P. Mountford

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Mountford gained recognition in the US for his exceptional communication skills and knowledge of Aboriginal culture, which were enhanced by his adeptness with visual media. With the support of the Australian Director-General of Information, Mountford conducted two lecture tours in the US in 1945 and
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Representative of the era's inclination towards "modular and portable" forms of travel documentation such as writing, film, and lecture tours, Mountford's films capturing Central Australia's essence prompted a lecture tour to the United States in 1945; when colour films Mountford had made, including
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The Curator of the South Australian Museum, Philip Jones, pointed out that by the 1940s, Mountford had advanced the anthropological significance of Australia Aboriginal art before any market for such art had emerged. Furthermore, Mountford understood that Aboriginal art is fundamentally inseparable
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from financing Mountford's endeavour, citing his amateur status. Nonetheless, he garnered support from the museum board for anthropological research and from private sponsors. Collaborating with Lauri Sheard and camel handler Tommy Dodd, and accompanied by Bessie, the four-month expedition in from
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Post Office as Mechanic-in-Charge, work that took him to remote outposts in which he became familiar with Aboriginal communities. Suffering poor health from the tropical climate and hard work, Mountford, then thirty-three, was posted back to the Adelaide GPO workshops where his family lived at 52
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Foundation member and past president, Anthropological Society of South Australia; foundation secretary, Australian Anthropological Association; Fellow, Royal Anthropological Society of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Board for Anthropological Research, Adelaide University. Fellow of the Royal
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OBE (1955); Australian Natural History medallion (1945); National Geographic Society Franklin L. Burr award (1949); Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian branch) John Lewis gold medal (1955); Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Queensland branch) Thomson gold medal;
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In 1949, Australia members of UNESCO engaged Mountford's assistance in creating a photographic publication showcasing bark and cave paintings. With sponsorship from the Commonwealth Department of Information, Mountford returned to Oenpelli in 1949, accompanied by professional photographer W. M.
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The plaintiffs were successful, and judge Justice Muirhead agreed to grant the injunction. He concluded that a number of photographs, drawings and descriptions of persons, places and ceremonies featured in the book held deep religious and cultural significance to the plaintiffs, and that their
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and in January 1913 obtained a permanent position in the engineering workshops at the General Post Office in the Engineering Branch of the Post and Telegraph Department. He was continuing studies in mathematics and natural science at the School of Mines and the University of Adelaide, although
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injunction preventing the book's publication in the Northern Territory. They argued that the Pitjantjara men who had revealed culturally restricted information with Mountford did so on the understanding that he would not share it with women, children, or uninitiated Aboriginal men.
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This eventually paved the way for the establishment of the American-Australian Arnhem Land Scientific Expedition of 1948, comprising American and Australian experts in various fields, including flora, fauna, archaeology, anthropology, photography, filmmaking, and health.
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Charles Mountford filming on location in the Mann Ranges, South Australia. Mountford used film made on expeditions to Central Australia in 1940 and 1942, to produce his first documentary film 'Brown Men and Red Sand (Walkabout)'. Courtesy State Library of South
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During 1938, Mountford, taking a year-long sabbatical from the PMG, served as an acting ethnologist at the museum and conceived of taking a camel expedition to central Australia with the intention of studying the artistic expressions of the
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Members of the anthropological expedition to the Warburton Range in Western Australia, 1935. From left: Charles Mountford, E. O. Stocker, N. B. Tindale (leader), and Dr C. J. Hackett.
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When Florence died aged 34 on 30 May 1925, Mountford, seeking distraction, revived his interest in indigenous culture and artworks in particular, and while staying with his father in
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A book by Charles Mountford, noted Australian anthropologist, was legally prevented from publication earlier this year because it told some of the secrets of the Pitjanjatjara tribe.
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Members of the 1948 AASEAL Expedition party, on Groote Eyland, Charles Mountford 3rd from left, middle row. Mountford-Sheard Collection, State Library of South Australia
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Mountford's father Charles married Arabella Windsor and moved into the house on a block farmed by his father at Hallett on the railway line 32 km north from
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and authored further scientific papers as well as a series of newspaper articles. He had completed a two-year term as an honorary assistant in ethnology at the
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1946, drawing an audience of four thousand Society members in Washington DC, and an account of his expediitons was featured in the January 1946 edition of
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Royal Society of South Australia Sir Joseph Verco medal (1971); University of Melbourne honorary Litt.D. (1973); University of Adelaide D.Litt. (1976)
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Although this injunction only applied to the Northern Territory, the book's publishers ultimately decided to withdraw the book from sale everywhere.
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in Adelaide was interested and he and Mountford collaborated on a short paper "Native Markings on Rocks at Morowie, South Australia" was read to the
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on 13 October 1934. In the same year, he joined an expedition organised by the University of Adelaide's board for anthropological research to the
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After participating in the board's expedition to the Granites in the Northern Territory in 1936, Mountford joined another expedition to the
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in London. From 1956 to 1964, a series of volumes documenting the expedition was published, including Mountford's own on Aboriginal art.
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Society of South Australia; Acting Ethnologist, South Australian Museum, 1937–38; twice President, Adelaide Camera Club; Member,
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travel and geographical magazine (1934–1974), which revised Australians' concept of 'The Centre" from the picture presented in
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in 1926, the first of many which Mountford was to present to learned societies; in 1928 he spoke again on the subject to the
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of South Australia in 1937. He revisited Nepabunna multiple times, creating an unprecedented ethnographic record of the
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they found at nearby Merowie Springs a rock with dozens of carved grooves which he traced and photographed. Ethnologist
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Mountford's written works, along with those by contemporaries, foreshadowed subsequent scholarly investigations like
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by mounted constable William (Bill) McKinnon. One of the incidents being investigated was the shooting death of
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The go-betweens : patrol officers in Aboriginal affairs administration in the Northern Territory 1936-74
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in South Australia. In the house his son Charles was born and was educated in the one-room local school.
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Records of the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land: Vol. 1 Art, myth and symbolism
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Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. 2. Anthropology and Nutrition
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Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. 3, Botany And Plant Ecology
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in 1940 resulted in an examination of the art and mythology surrounding the landmarks Uluru and the
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impressed the British Parliamentary Delegation when they were shown them, South Australian Premier
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This article is about the Australian anthropologist and photographer. For the Canadian poet, see
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Murray, Ian (22 April 1977). "The Aborigines now must suffer Australia's rush of conscience".
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was the first of several Australian court cases dealing with Aboriginal secret information.
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Mountford, Charles P.; American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (1956).
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Records of the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land. 4, Zoology
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from narrative, place, and identity, transmitted through song and ceremony.
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and they had two children, Kenneth and Joyce. In 1920 was promoted to the
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and then, when Mountford (who adopted the nickname 'Monty') was ten, to
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Records of the American-Australian scientific expedition to Arnhem Land
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Leader, 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
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people through his photographs, recordings, and notes on mythology,
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Mountford-Sheard Collection of the State Library of South Australia
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and other works created, written and gathered by Mountford in the
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On October 28, 1933, at the Gartrell Memorial Methodist Church in
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and his depictions and descriptions of their art. He also led the
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without prospect or graduating since he had never matriculated.
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Jones, Philip (2000). "Mountford, Charles Pearcy (1890–1976)".
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1971: Royal Society of South Australia Sir Joseph Verco medal
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There is a collection of Mountford's photographs, journals,
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Holmes, O.B.E.. M.C.., F.R.G.S., Charles (1 November 195).
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in Western Australia, alongside Tindale, C. J. Hackett, a
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and others now digitised and publicly accessible at the
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1949: National Geographic Society Franklin L. Burr award
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Mountford and his father became founding members of the
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American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
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The Red Centre: Man and Beast in the Heart of Australia
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Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
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was the subject of an important court case due to its
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Council swiftly launched legal action and sought an
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The family income was constrained and they moved to
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Ayers Rock, Its People, Their Beliefs and Their Art
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UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Program 718:, particularly those in central Australia, the 337:South Australian School of Mines and Industries 288:Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology 686:1973: University of Melbourne honorary Litt.D. 519:In 1942, he embarked on a journey through the 689:1976: University of Adelaide honorary D.Litt. 46:O.B.E., M.A. (Adel.), Dip. Anthrop. (Cantab.) 8: 1671:Australian Academic & Research Libraries 1572:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 631:Australia: Aboriginal Paintings, Arnhem Land 403:, he conducted surveys of engravings in the 1654:. Harvard University Press. pp. 33–34. 1503:State Library of South Australia LibGuides 1395:Mountford, Charles P.; Specht, R. (1964). 1372:Mountford, Charles P.; Specht, R. (1958). 1357:Mountford, Charles P.; Specht, R. (1960). 1323:– via National Library of Australia. 1219:Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature 667:1945: Australian Natural History Medallion 397:Anthropological Society of South Australia 299:inclusion of culturally restricted content 52: 38: 27:Australian anthropologist and photographer 1770:Memory of the World Register in Australia 1682: 1198:"Mountford To Tell About Stone Age Men". 857:, its people, their beliefs and their art 678:Royal Geographical Society of Australasia 259:. He is known for his pioneering work on 984:"Monty"; the biography of C.P. Mountford 917: 863:thesis which became a popular paperback 343:In 1914 he married Florence Purnell at 181:Anthropology, Australian indigenous art 132:Florence Purnell, Bessie Ilma Johnstone 1665:Heather Moorcroft, Alex Byrne (1996). 1565: 1227:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.312 1215:"Australian Travel Writing, 1900–1960" 880:(1971) – in collaboration with artist 799:publication could harm the community. 1626: 1624: 1622: 1046:Long, Jeremy Phillip Merrick (1992). 931: 929: 927: 925: 923: 921: 468:Mountford also served as lecturer in 7: 1015: 1013: 1011: 977: 975: 973: 714:. It is of cultural significance to 633:, one of UNESCO's world art series. 629:Brindle, and they produced the book 247: – 16 November 1976, 1082:Commonwealth Board of Enquiry, 1935 887:Winbaraku: and the myth of Jarapiri 673:1955: O.B.E. in the Civil Division 1525:"#21: Mountford-Sheard Collection" 938:Australian Dictionary of Biography 847:Tiwi: their art, myth and ceremony 335:In the meantime he studied at the 25: 1449:Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 1268:(5): 8, 20, 64 – via Trove. 1258:"Colour Recording an Extinct Art" 1720:Bright Sparcs Biographical entry 1476:State Library of South Australia 899:The Aborigines and their country 704:State Library of South Australia 637:'s copies or interpretations of 474:Workers' Educational Association 373:Royal Society of South Australia 295:Nomads of the Australian Desert, 227: 1702:. London, England. p. 10. 1213:Johnston, Anna (28 June 2017), 1170:Metropolitan Pasadena Star-News 1104:"White brother of brown tribes" 905:Nomads of the Australian Desert 893:Australian Aboriginal portraits 782:Nomads of the Australian Desert 775:Nomads of the Australian Desert 1684:10.1080/00048623.1996.10754962 1110:. 17 September 1944. p. 4 1027:. 15 September 1945. p. 2 383:Exploration for indigenous art 1: 1605:10.1080/1031461X.2020.1856899 1593:Australian Historical Studies 1499:"Mountford-Sheard Collection" 1471:"Mountford-Sheard Collection" 1256:Brindle, W. M. (1 May 1950). 1202:. 1 February 1946. p. 9. 1187:. 3 February 1945. p. 3. 1147:10.1080/1031461X.2020.1856899 1135:Australian Historical Studies 768:National Library of Australia 190:University of South Australia 115:University of South Australia 1765:20th-century anthropologists 1445:"Government Gazette Notices" 1775:Australian photojournalists 1279:Read, Herbert, ed. 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Index

Charles Pearcy Mountford
Charles H. Mountford

Hallett, South Australia
Norwood, South Australia
University of South Australia
University of South Australia
Thesis
Norman Tindale

OBE
Hallett
Norwood
anthropologist
photographer
Indigenous Australians
American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
T. G. H. Strehlow
Stephen Muecke
Paddy Roe
inclusion of culturally restricted content
Burra
Georgetown
Moonta
stereoscope slides
Kilkenny
South Australian School of Mines and Industries
Thebarton
Darwin
Torrensville

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