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Part 4 A Family Moves Camp and Gathers Food

A nomadic family of the Western Desert moves from one camp to another and gathers food on the way.
Series : People of the Australian Western Desert | Episode : 4 | Year : 1966 | Total Duration : 46.5 Minutes | Producer : John Martin-Jones
Director : Ian Dunlop |
Pan desert, bare trees with zebra finches in branches. Well holes dug out in ground, one with water in. Pan rocky ground, site of old camp. Good pan flat land with spinifex grass. Aboriginal man, Minma Djuburula, (Ngadjadjara linguistic group) walking on horizon. Camera walks with man across desert. (May 1965).
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Access No. 125975 | 3 mins 37 secs | 1960s | Yalara, Warburton Mission area, WA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Aboriginal girl, about 11 years old, digging at bottom of well in ground, scooping at water with wooden dish. Zebra finches in trees. Family camped, two boys (one teenager , one younger) leave camp carrying spears. Other members of family prepare to leave camp, women pack food and grindstones into wooden dishes and balance them on heads. Man Minma carries spears and fire stick, family move off with children.(May 1965)
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Access No. 125980 | 4 mins 15 secs | 1960s | Yalara, Warburton Mission area, WA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Two aboriginal boys (one teenager , one younger) trekking animal tracks, communicate with other using sign language. Find goanna tracks. Boys chase sand goanna across spinifex grass. Goanna goes into hole, boys dig and pull it out. Girl, carrying dish, stops to dig hole for sand goanna, pulls it out and hits it on log, puts dead body in wooden dish.(May 1965)
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Access No. 125981 | 3 mins 12 secs | 1960s | Between Yalara and Tika Tika, Warburton Mission area, WA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Aboriginal man Minma testing ground for goanna tunnels using long stick. Walks, stops by bush and eats Santalum fruit. Uses stick to prod bush looking for goanna, digs hole, pulls out goanna, kills it and tucks it into his belt. Inspects kangaroo tracks. Walks to area where long eared bandicoot burrows found, stops, starts digging with stick then with wooden dish until makes very deep hole, Finally pulls out bandicoot, kills it by hitting head with dish, tucks body into belt.(May 1965)
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Access No. 125982 | 7 mins 6 secs | 1960s | Between Yalara and Tika Tika, Warburton Mission area, WA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Aboriginal woman Manggadju with wooden dish on head stops to remove seeds and husks from woolly butt grass. CU's face as she works. Man Minma stops to collect bush tobacco, CU breaking leaves. Family gathered. Girl digging up lizards, (netted dragons) CU face with flies. Toddler boy running about catching more lizards across sand. CU face with runny nose and flies.(May 1965)
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Access No. 125983 | 3 mins 57 secs | 1960s | Between Yalara and Tika Tika, Warburton Mission area, WA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Teenage aboriginal boy walks up to acacia tree looking for witchetty grub droppings, digs up small tree with hands exposing roots. Gathers grubs from roots. CU face as he eats one. Gives another grub to younger boy, they smile and laugh. Man Minma walks across desert looking for wind ripples and prints. (May 1965)
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Access No. 125984 | 4 mins 12 secs | 1960s | Between Yalara and Tika Tika, Warburton Mission area, WA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Aboriginal woman Janindu and toddler boy pulling out lizard from hole and killing it. She walks away carrying son on back and dish on head. Man Minma makes pattern in sand with his feet. CU him lighting fire in spinifex grass. Flames across grass, smoke rising. Desert landscape with smoke rising from distance.(May 1965)
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Access No. 125985 | 2 mins 46 secs | 1960s | Between Yalara and Tika Tika, Warburton Mission area, WA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
LS Aboriginal family walking across desert. Family walk towards camera. Some carrying wooden dishes on heads. Arrive at camp. Toddler boy breast feeding. Woman collects firewood. Man Minma makes windbreak with trees. Girl arrives with water carried in wooden dish on head. Camp around fire, teenage boy and younger boy camp separately from group. Girl takes them water.(May 1965)
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Access No. 125986 | 5 mins 26 secs | 1960s | Tika Tika, Warburton Mission area, WA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Night shots. Aboriginal man Minma uses metal axe to break up hard sand for resting place. Woman Janindu uses stick to do the same. CU water in wooden dish and fire. Toddler boy takes fire and light surrounding grasses. Janindu brushes her bed smooth with branch. Minma rolls bush tobacco in ash to chew later. Family by fires for warmth. Minma sits between two fires. (May 1965)
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Access No. 125987 | 4 mins 8 secs | 1960s | Tika Tika, Warburton Mission area, WA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Night shots - Aboriginal boy cooks whole sand goanna in fire with whole native mice. CU's boys' faces. More lizards cooked and covered with hot ashes in fire. CU toddler boy's face. Cooked goanna lifted out. CU boy laughing, two boys break lizard in half to share. CU gnawing on limbs as they eat it. (May 1965)
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Access No. 125988 | 5 mins 11 secs | 1960s | Tika Tika, Warburton Mission area, WA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
Night shots. CU hands clapping. CU aboriginal man Minma talking and singing, toddler boy breast feeding next to mother Janindu as they prepare to sleep. Man lays in hollow with two fires burying next to him. VS family sleeping surrounded by many small fires. (May 1965)
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Access No. 125989 | 1 min 52 secs | 1960s | Tika Tika, Warburton Mission area, WA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
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