Francis Gillen Collection
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F.J. Gillen is recognised as one of Australia's pioneer anthropologists, in partnership with the zoologist and museum director W.B. Spencer.
More 500 Aboriginal artefacts collected by F.J.Gillen from central and north-central Australia.
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Original object lists in specimen documentation files; collection documentation (of like or actual objects) in W.B. Spencer and F.J. Gillen (1899) Native Tribes of Central Australia, Macmillan, London and, for example, F.J. Gillen (1968) Gillen's Diary: The Camp Jottings of F. J. Gillen on the Spencer and Gillen Expedition Across Australia, 1901-1902. State Library of S.A., Adelaide. Online note: Under development (comprehensive website with digitised resources relating to Spencer and Gillen). Related Collections: Gillen photograph albums, glass-plate negatives and glass slides, collection lists, one field notebook, correspondence held in the SAM Archives (AA108; AA93; AA298); Gillen journals and field notes also held in Special Collections, Barr Smith Library at the University of Adelaide and in PRG 456, State Library of South Australia. W.B. Spencer's journals, photographs and ethnographic collections (complementary to Gillen's) are held in several institutions, but notably Museum Victoria. For Gillen's biographical entry, see http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090007b.htm
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Aboriginal Artefacts, Aboriginal culture, Aboriginal peoples (Australians), Photography, Australian Aboriginal Material Culture, Axe, Bag, Bags, Basket, Boomerang, Ceremonial Objects, Club, Container, Cordage, F.J. Gillen, Fire-Making, Knife, Late 19Th and Early 20Th Centuries, Medical, Message, Musical Instrument, Narcotic, Ornament, Photographs, Plume, Shield, Sorcery, Spear, Spear-Thrower, Tjurunga, Toy, Waninga, Aboriginal peoples, Artefacts, Drugs, Indigenous Medicine, Musical Instruments, Toys, Anthropological Specimens, Containers, Edged Weapons, Personal Adornments, Projectile Weapons, Tools, Weapons, Francis James Gillen
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