biography
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Mountford, Charles Pearcy
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| male
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| lived:
| (1890–1976)
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| biography:
| Ethnologist, writer, and film director, born in Hallett, South Australia. As a mechanic for the post office he was brought into contact with the Aborigines, and became an expert on their way of life. He led an expedition in search of the lost explorer Ludwig Leichhardt (1937), and between 1938 and 1960 led 10 expeditions into C Australia. In 1948 he was leader of expeditions into Arnhem Land and to Melville I, for the National Geographic Society of the USA. Beginning with Brown Men and Red Sand (1948), he wrote a series of books, illustrated with his own photographs, about the Aborigines and their culture. He won awards for his photography and went on to direct feature films on Aboriginal life. |
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