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Mountford Collection

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Collection's strengths: bark paintings, crayon drawings, wooden sculptures More than 1000 Aboriginal artefacts collected by C.P. Mountford, includes collections made during the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, and Mountford's 1952

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See Mountford C.P. 1956 Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land Vol.1: Art, Myth and Symbolism, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne; and Mountford, C.P. 1958. The Tiwi. Their Art, Myth and Ceremony Phoenix House, London.. Further information in specimen documentation files, S.A. Museum, and in the Mountford-Sheard Collection, State Library of South Australia. See also M. Lamshed Monty (Adelaide, 1972) and Philip Jones, 'Mountford, Charles Pearcy (1890 - 1976)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 431-433. Associated archival component held in the SAM Archives collections; includes a large selection of Aboriginal crayon drawings. Entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online: http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150500b.htm

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