TGH Strehlow kept detailed diaries all his adult life, cataloguing the the culture of the Arrernte people of central Australia.
Strehlow Research Centre
The Strehlow Research Centre was built by the Northern Territory Government to safely house the Strehlow Collection which is used as a cultural resource by aboriginal people, academic researchers and interested members of the general public when appropriate and, if necessary, sanctioned by aboriginal elders.
Address:
Alice Springs Cultural Precinct, Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, NT
Tel:
0889511111
Hours:
9am-4pm weekdays
Website:
Email:
Admission:
n/a
Facilities:
Research facilities, reference library.
Collection:
The Strehlow Research Centre, established in 1991 under the Strehlow Research Centre Act, serves as a keeping place for cultural material relating to the aboriginal people of central Australia. The collection was accumulated between 1932 and 1978 and reflects both a sacred and open range of artefacts, including film, photographs, texts, maps, genealogies, correspondence and ceremonial objects.
Subject:
- Archive
- Keeping Place
- Art
- Painting
- Paper
- Domestic Items
- Historic People
- Images
- Local History
- Organisations
- Religion
- Rural Life
- Social History
- Weapons Arms and Armor
- Women
- Communications
- Hunting, Fishing, Trapping
- Aboriginal Art
- Aboriginal Artefacts
- Aboriginal Culture
- Anthropology
- Dance
- Ephemera
- Film Sound and Video
- Literature
- Music
- Performing Arts
Items
diary page
detail
Creator:
TGH Strehlow
Description:
The diaries of ethnographer and linguist TGH Strehlow
Date:
c1932-1970
Diaries
Creator:
TGH Strehlow
Description:
The diaries of ethnographer and linguist TGH Strehlow
Date:
c1932-1970
TGH Strehlow kept detailed diaries all his adult likfe, cataloguing the culture of the Arrernte people of central Australia.
Photograph
Creator:
Unknown (possibly TGH Strehlow)
Description:
Mono photograph of TGH Stehlow with his camels during an expedition in the western desert area of the Northern Territory.
Date:
1935-1940
One of a large collection of monos and colour photographs from the Strehlow Collection
Camera
Thornton Pickard
Creator:
Commercially manufactured item
Description:
Glass plate negative Thornton Pickard Camera
Date:
1930s-40s
During the 1930's and 1940's, TGH Strehlow used this camera to photograph the people and places of the Northern Territory.
Hair ornaments
Creator:
Arrernte people
Description:
Traditional hair ornaments of the western desert area of the Northern Territory.
Date:
pre 1936
Made of wood and red cockatoo feathers, animal sinew and ochre with a burnt incised design.