Australia's Wild Nor'west
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1995.2.1
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content: Bishop Museum film collection
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content: 1 Videocassettes (VHS) (11 minutes, black-and-white silent, 1/2 inch)
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content: circa 1923
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Videocassettes (vhs)
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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 peoples of coastal and inland Northern Territory. Footage includes demonstration of the use of the Woomera or throwing stick, a "War Corrobboree" and examples of tribal scarification. Also included are scenes of coral reef and coastal wildlife, sea-eagles in nest, dugong capture, adult and hatchling sea turtles. Includes footage of aborigine "sounding" for turtles' eggs in sand and riding on the back of a sea turtle. Also includes National Geographic article and 1920 Australian film review. 

Legacy Keywords: Dance dancing Corroboree Australia ; Weapons spear throwing stick woomera Australia ; Fauna coral dugong crab sea-eagle sea-turtle Australia ; Transportation canoes dugouts Australia ; Culture contact Aboriginal Australia ; Oceania ; Australia ; Northwest Territory, Broome, Wyndham ; Aborigine, Montgomery Islanders; William Jackson, photographer.