Australia's Wild Nor-West
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1990.7.10
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Oregon Historical Society
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content: Oregon Historical Society's Robert McCoy films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (12 minutes, black-and-white silent; 795 feet, 35mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1923
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Incomplete edited film of the 1917 North-West Scientific Expedition of Australia led by E.J. Stuart. Expedition explored the Australian coast between Broome and Wyndham and documented selective aspects of aboriginal people of the insular and coastal Northern Territory. Footage includes examples of scarification used as tribal markings and capture of sea cows, stingray, shovel-nose sharks, and baby and adult sea turtles in water and travelling across beach.  Also includes National Geographic article and 1920 Australian film review.

Legacy Keywords: Culture contact Aboriginal Australia ; Language and culture ; Turtles ; Ecology ; Oceania ; Australia ; Northwest Territory, Broome, Wyndham ; Aborigine, Montgomery Islanders ; Greenwood-Adams, M.P., producer, distributor ; William Jackson, photographer