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219933PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Along the Trans Line
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219934PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Along the Trans Line
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219935PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Roger Green
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219936PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Eagles nest along the Trans Line
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219937PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. First camp
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219938PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Jeep versus tree (on the initial trip the jeep skidded in a mud pool and hit this tree - they returned to Cundeelee, repaired the radiator and set out again)
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219939PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Jimmy Maardi at a playa north of the Trans Line
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219940PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Playa north of the Trans Line
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219941PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. North of the Trans Line, moving into Aboriginal land where they expected to locate their relatives
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Summary
Robert McKeich describes the event photographed here as looking for relatives of Aboriginal people at Cundeelee. Others descibe it as: "The missionaries used to go out and "rescue" people from the desert." Many people were brought into Cundeelee from the Maralinga atomic testing area (Western Desert Regional Council regional plan, Cundeelee ward, 1996, p.10)
Year
1954.
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Title and captions supplied by donor. This image has been preserved and made available by the Historical Records Rescue Consortium Project supported by Lotterywest.
Subjects
- Missionaries -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
- Online image.
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