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THE seventh expedition, organised by the Board for Anthropological Research of the University of Adelaide, in conjunction with the South Australian Museum, has just returned from Ernabella, situated at the eastern end of the Musgrave Ranges and not far distant from the reserve for aborigines in the north-west of South Australia. Much of the expense incurred was defrayed from a fund received from the Rockefeller Foundation and administered by the Australian National Research Council. For two months previously, Dr. C. Hackett and Mr. N. B. Tindale had travelled on camels through the Musgrave Ranges and on to the Mann Ranges, studying the habits of the aborigines and following them in their daily pursuits. These two joined the main party in August, when an intensive survey of nearly a hundred natives, most of them as yet untouched by civilisation, was undertaken. Standard measurements, fifty-three in number, were made on each of 61 individuals by Drs. H. Gray and C. Hackett. Full-face and profile photographs of these same persons and a number of special photographs were secured, and about 2,000 feet of cinematograph films, portraying ceremonies and incidents in the daily life of the natives, were exposed.
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Natives of South Australia. Nature 132, 996 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132996b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132996b0