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219942PD: 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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219943PD: 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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219944PD: 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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219945PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Jimmy Maardi at a rock hole
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219946PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. That's the way
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219947PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. They're out there somewhere
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219948PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Jimmy Maardi points the way
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219949PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. I see smoke
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219951PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Signs of people, dancing grounds
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219952PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Problems about 300 miles north east of Cundeelee
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219953PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Nullarbor Plain
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219954PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. Roger Green looking good, camped about 300 miles NE of Cundeelee
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219955PD: Heading bush to look for Aboriginal relatives, 1954. First contact, first clothes. A small group was located - after initial introductions, sorting kinship relationships, small gifts given - the missionaries 'covered their shame'
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219956PD: Newcomers to Cundeelee - the Aboriginal group was brought to Cundeelee, 1954
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219957PD: Newcomers to Cundeelee - Wolgatha people just in from the bush, 1954
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219958PD: Newcomers to Cundeelee, 1954
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219959PD: Newcomers to Cundeelee, 1954
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219960PD: Young men from the bush at Cundeelee, 1954
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Summary
"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
- Aboriginal Australians -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
- Missions -- Western Australia -- Photographs.
- Wongatha (Australian people) -- Photographs.
- View more on SLWA catalogue
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