This is the eighth of twelve film titles documenting the Board for Anthropological Research (BAR) Harvard-Adelaide Universities expedition, during 13 May 1938 - 30 June 1939.
This expedition travelled through South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia. For a listing of the locations visited by the expedition party see: JB Birdsell's 'Australian Daily Field Journal 1938-1939' (AA 689/1/1) and NB Tindale's Journal 'Harvard and Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, Australia, 1938-1939' (AA 338/1/15/1-2).
These film titles were made but not included in the Harvard-Adelaide expedition films, with the exception of 'Pygmoid Natives of the Atherton Plateau, Queensland' 1938, which was fully titled, according to NB Tindale's (AA 338) report on the unfinished BAR films (AA 346/9/27/8). Where possible titles have been matched to the proposed final film productions.
In this summary all intertitles are italicised and within quotation marks. All spelling within intertitles have been left as originally spelt. Language and terms which reflect the author's attitude or that of the period in which the item was produced may be considered inappropriate today.
Note that the time coded summary is in minutes and seconds. Following the summary of this film is a list of references and further notes.
Formats Held: 16mm, SP Betacam, Digital Betacam, Access DVDs.
Summary (Time Coded) Taken from Access DVD 3 (AA 346/9/13/8/6)
00:00 Harvard Adelaide Expedition: 'Titles' 1938-1939.
00:00 'Cultural Sensitivity Warning.'
00:00 'The Museum Board of South Australia © 1939.'
Titles for the film 'Mixed Bloods of Cape Barren Island,' and possibly others.
01:30 'By plane and launch to Cape Barren Island.' Tasmania
01:34 'Tasmanian mixed-bloods are elusive camera subjects.'
01:39 'An Islander with his father's portrait (F1 Tasmanian hybrid).'
01:45 'Typical scenes on mixed-blood settlements.'
01:49 'A well-organised ration store.' Lake Tyers, Victoria.
01:53 'Third generation Tasmanian mixed bloods.'
01:57 'Agriculture work.' Point Pearce, South Australia.
02:00 'Mixed-bloods trained as plough men.'
02:04 'The best type of housing.' Mona Mona, Queensland.
02:08 'Near-white children (¼ Aus.)'
Titles for the films 'Woorabinda' and 'Lake Tyers,' possibly others.
02:12 'A profitable avenue of employment - gold-mining.' Mount Margaret, Western Australia.
02:16 'Empire Day Celebrations.' Cumeroogunga, New South Wales.
02:21 'For some the old way die hard.'
02:25 Restricted Content Starts.
02:41 Restricted Content Ends.
02:41 'Apple-gum bark for Kamilaroi canoe, MacIntyre River, NSW.'
02:47 'Unnamed Weilwan string game from Brewarrina, NSW.'
02:51 'Boomerang - throwing by survivors of Joti-Jota, (Cummeragunja), NSW.'
02:56 'Kurnai father and son, Lake Tyers, VIC N1538-1539.'
03:02 'Last Survivor of Buandik tribe, Dergholm, VIC N1547.'
03:08 'Survivors of the Mining, Nullarbor Plain, SA N2343-2348.'
03:15 'Last survivor of the Pangkala, Whyalla, SA (1939).'
03:17 'Recording Jarildekald texts with Karloan, Murray River, SA.
03:23 'Jarildekald man demonstrates shell-chopper (Eucrassatella verconis) Lake Alexandrina, SA.'
03:28 'Fresh water mussel, (Hyridella australis) as scraper.'
03:32 'Tanganekald man hunting among the sand-dunes, Coorong, SA.'
Titles for the 'Transport' film.
03:38 'Stock riders in Central Queensland.' Charters Towers, Queensland.
03:41 'Horse-drawn sledge at Lake Tyers, Victoria.'
03:46 'Camel buggies on Nullarbor Plain, SA'
03:50 'Bullock team in Atherton rain jungle, Queensland.'
03:54 'Old steam wagon at oak Forest, Queensland.'
03:58 'Steam trams carry sugar cane, Russell River, Queensland.'
04:07 'Motor vehicles superseding oxen and steam.'
04:10 'Fast transport moves by plane, Tasmania to Flinders Island.'
04:16 'Paddle steamers carry goods along the Murray. ' Murray River, South Australia.
04:21 'Loading wheat ships, Port Victoria, SA.'
04:25 'Last of the ocean sailing ships, 1939.' Port Victoria, South Australia.
04:29 'With internal combustion motors, great speeds are possible.'
Titles for the 'Fossil' film.
04:33 'Site of discover of first human fossil, Talgai, Queensland.'
04:38 'JB Birdsell examines washout creek walls for further relics.'
04:44 'Fossil kangaroo and diprotodon bones from the same beds.'
04:49 'Meeting GA Gray, finder of human fossil at Cohuna, Vic.'
04:55 'Drain-digging team which unearthed the fossil skull.'
04:59 'Fresh-water shells discovered in the Cohuna beds.'
05:03 'Examining Cohuna cranium at Institute of Anatomy, Canberra.'
05:08 'The Talgai skull.'
05:11 'The Cohuna skull.'
05:14 'Cape Barren Island: discovery of first ancient implement.' Tasmania.
05:19 'Ancient aboriginal stone fish-trap at Brewarrina, NSW.'
05:23 'The crocodile carving at Panaramittee, SA (Photograph CP Mountford).'(AA 228)
05:29 'Northward to tropical Queensland: westward to Perth.'
05:33 'Finding aboriginal stone implements beneath the volcanic ash of Mt Schank, SA.'
Titles for 'Pygmoid Natives of the Atherton Plateau, Queensland' not included in the final film production, and possibly others.
05:39 'Sojourn at Palm Island.' Queensland.
05:42 'Angry aborigine defying station authorities.' Palm Island, Queensland.
05:45 'Glimpses of expedition members at work.'
05:49 'Diversions.'
05:53 'Prickly pear forest on the Gogango Range, Queensland.'
05:56 'Water-boring in Great Artesian Basin, Weilmoringle, NSW.'
06:01 'Tree nests of termites, Boggabilla, NSW.'
06:05 'Native women carrying timber, Mona Mona, Queensland.'
Titles for 'Native Mammals' and 'Birds' films
06:10 'The Emu, (Dromaius novaehollandiae).'
06:13 'The native companion [Brolga] (Grus rubicundus).'
06:18 'Australian cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) a rain-jungle dweller.'
06:24 'Galah (Kakatoe roseicapilla).'
06:28 'Glossy Starling (Aplonis metallica) a communal nest-builder.'
06:33 'Flocks move south into Queensland jungles to breed.'
06:37 'Mynahs, Brewarrina, NSW.'
06:40 'Plumed Pigeon (Lophophaps plumifera) Quantambone, NSW.'
06:45 'Australian Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeate) Woodenbong, NSW.'
06:49 'Rat-kangaroo (Aepyprymnus rufescens) Woorabinda, Qnsld.'
06:53 'Yellow-footed pouched mouse, (Phascogale flavipes) Willunga, SA.'
06:57 'Honey Mouse (Tarsipes Spenserae) from Kendenup, WA.'
07:02 'Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) at Flaggy Creek, Nth Qnsld. (northernmost record).
07:07 'Burrowing frog (Heleioporus albopunctatus) at Borden, WA.'
07:12 'Spiny Devil (Moloch horridus) Nullabor Plain, SA.'
07:16 'SOME METHODS OF TRANSPORT IN AUSTRALIA'
07:21 'AUSTRALIAN MIXED-BLOODS AND THEIR LIFE. I.'
07:25 'AUSTRALIAN MIXED-BLOODS AND THEIR LIFE. II.'
07:30 'RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN NATIVE MAMMALS.'
07:34 'SOME CULTURAL SURVIVALS AMONG SOUTH EASTERN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINIES.'
07:39 'SOME AUSTRALIAN BIRDS.'
07:45 End of footage