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Life at Remote Hermannsburg Mission

A look at life at Hermannsburg Mission in the Northern Territory.
Series : Australian Diary | Episode : 4 | Year : 1947 | Total Duration : 3 Minutes |
Director : Jack S Allan |
Man walking away from camera with sack or bag over his shoulder. Remote homestead in distance. Group of Aboriginal people sitting under gum trees in outback. Non indigenous man (probably preacher or missionary) standing and addressing the Aboriginal group.
Access No. 24985 | 23 secs | 1940s | Hermannsburg, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Good shot of Aboriginal woman nursing a small child. Good shot of male Aboriginal elder with white hair and moustache sanding a boomerang. Aboriginal man showing animals skins (kangaroo and emu) to another non-indigenous man with pen and paper in hand. Good profile MS of Aboriginal man in stockman's hat. CU receipt for skins.
Access No. 24990 | 24 secs | 1940s | Hermannsburg, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Aboriginal man, stockman, in wide brim hat coming out of store carrying tins of canned food, shoes and billy can. Other Aboriginal men getting stores. Good shot of three Aboriginal women on ground shaking a kangaroo rug. Aboriginal man lifts saddles off post of a make shift shelter.
Access No. 24997 | 19 secs | 1940s | Hermannsburg, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
WS of cattle in outback, dry desert , droving. Aboriginal stockman with bucket lifting water from bore hole and pouring it into a cattle trough. VS of Aboriginal jackaroo (stockman, drover).
Access No. 25004 | 23 secs | 1940s | Hermannsburg, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |