Collection 5: Presbyterian Church of Australia. Board of Ecumenical Mission and Relation photographs, ca. 1880-1973

PXD 1335
SLIDES 273
ON 548
NCY 63
MAV/FM4/10972

sub-fonds

ca. 1880-1973

Graphic Materials, Objects, Photographs

909677

Approx. 4581 photographs - 31 x 38 cm. or smaller - chiefly gelatin silver
21 contact sheets - black & white
Approx. 3541 negatives - various sizes - colour and black & white
70 slides - 35mm. - colour
18 slides - lantern
21 reels of slides - 35mm. - black & white
1 transparency - 5.5 x 5.5 cm. - colour
1 plaque - 37 x 26 x 2 cm. - black lacquer and mother of pearl on wood
5 microfilm reels of graphic materials - 35mm. - negative

"Not infrequently missions were relocated, taking with them their entire Aboriginal population. In 1949 the Kunmunya mission moved to Wotjulum, taking with it most of the coastal Worrorra people, and absorbing the inhabitants of the nearby Munja reserve, which was then closed down. At the same time the coastal peoples from farther north moved into the Kalumburu mission area. The result of these moves was to leave 'a vast area of uninhabited country in the homeland of the Worora and its two allied tribes, with the three islets of habitation, namely the Missions at Wotjulum, Kalumburu and Forrest River' (Davidson 1978: 94). Seven years later, the Wotjulum mission was shifted to Old Mowanjum, on the outskirts of Derby." -- McGregor, William B. Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia (Routledge, 2013). Accessed via Google Books, 22 May 2013

PXD 1335/BOX 1
Approx. 129 loose and mounted photographs, including Aurukun, Hermannsburg, Ernabella, Mowanjum, Mornington (1), Walgett (1). Mostly undated. Many are captioned, including: ‘Men of Weipa [Aboriginal ex-servicemen] who have been deprived of their hunting ground’; ‘Miss Mary Gillian with kindergarten children’; ‘Matron of TB Hospital on Thursday Island’; ‘Making a cradle’; ‘Sam and Elkin Umbagai, Mowanjum, speaking to Mr Snedden at Canberra Airport following their return from Djakarta, Indonesia, where they had spend one month supervising a display of Aboriginal art & artifacts, Nov 1973’; ‘Wotjulum boat launching Sat Aug 14 1954’

Approx. 225 photographs from envelope originally marked “Aborigines – All stations. Unsorted.” Most are uncaptioned and undated. Captions include ‘Mrs Cane [Cave?], Mr McKenzie, and Gwen, a motherless baby rescued from the bush when 2 weeks old. Now 2 years March 1936’; ‘Godwins, Mowanjum’; ‘Hatches Creek, CA / Bruce Deans’; ‘People carrying spinifex for church; ‘Dr Davies treating natives’; ‘Nanjintjanja – Mission trained teacher’. 1 envelope captioned ‘Rev. Coombes Dec ‘59’ includes some named portraits (Muwitja; Tjikalyi; Nungalka; Bernard Amanyi , Api & baby; Peter Tjalara; Windlass Tjuwilya; Henry, Watulya, Yaltjangki & baby; Gordon Tinimai & Malyungka; Kim Angkuna), taken on an unidentified occasion (baptism)? Locations include ‘Great Central Reserve’. Dates include 1959, June 1963.

118 7 x 4.5cm. photoprints from NCY 63 - uncaptioned views from missions in Australia and New Hebrides (?).

21 contact sheets from NCY 63, containing prints numbered 1-705.

PXD 1335/BOX 2
Wotjulum (18 photographs), some captioned and dated, including landing in Coppermine Inlet with vessel ‘Watt Leggatt’; old vegetable gardens, 1950; missionaries’ home and dispensary, 1957; Aboriginal people Willie (‘head man’) and Albert; meeting a party of Islanders at Montgomery.

19 photographs (mostly portraits of unidentified male elders wearing Indigenous dress; ‘Pintjantjara tribesman’) from envelope originally marked ‘Stills (Daisy Bates)’
Approx. 159 loose and mounted photographs of Ernabella and Fregon; most are uncaptioned and undated; dated photos 1942-1967. Include ‘”Kokiganya” in the bush. One of the children in Class III, Oct. 1940’; Aboriginal woman weaving on a loom; ‘Wool spinning – Native fashion’; mother and child in front of a grass shelter; Ernabella Choir at Moomba Festival, 1966; portrait of students Peter and Gordon, dedicated on verso ‘To Gordon from his music teacher (Miss). E. M. Tuckwell, July 1955’; Sister Graham at Ernabella; ‘Rodney, teacher at Ernabella School. Pitjantjatjara – Grew up at the Mission’; ‘Daggs – ex Ernabella (Fregon)’; ‘Andy & Eric, Fregon, May 1962’; temporary church at Ernabella; shearing; camels. Some photos of Ernabella, 1946, credited to ‘V.W. C.’ and D. Duguid.

Approx. 154 loose photographs from envelope originally marked ‘Port George IV, Kunmunya, Wotjulum - Historical’. Mostly undated; ca.1912-1950s? Subjects include Kunmunya mission boats ‘Watt Leggatt’ and ‘Balfour Matthew’; snapshots of buildings at Munja including clinic, superintendent’s house, assistant’s house, flour stack, single men’s quarters; pineapple plantation; searching for aeroplane ‘Southern Cross’ [7 men in a skiff]; ‘Harry Radforth, captain of “W. S. Rolland”; Pat, his son; Wandoonmoi[?], a native man of Kunmunya’; group of identified men from Port George Mission; ‘Elkin, Florence, Daisy and Flora in the donkey cart bringing home the wood’; cave paintings near Port George IV station (2); vessel ‘J. C. Ward’ at Port George IV. Includes 4 photographs of Kunmunya transferred from New Hebrides boxes.

Approx. 63 photographs from envelope originally marked “Old (out -of-date) Mowanjum photos”. 1950s-1960s.Some are captioned and dated. Captions include ‘Roger Burgu[?] driving Ferguson tractor with a load of salt, end ’62, or ‘63’; ‘Mowanjum children in truck setting out for school at Derby, June 1957’; youth in metal workshop in Derby Technical School.

PXD 1335/BOX 3
Approx. 245 photographs of Aurukun and Mornington Island (MI), including 1 photograph album (13 photographs).

Aurukun album views include: vessel ‘Morning Star’ off MI; Aurukun Mission Station; boys’ dormitory at Aurukun; girl boarders at Aurukun with Mrs Paull; Aurukun men at work in front of workshop. Aurukun loose photographs include: Sister Margaret Holmes, MI; Sister Alison Cameron, Aurukun; ‘newly admitted church members with Rev & Mrs W. F. MacKenzie’; Aurukun 60th anniversary celebration, 8/8/1964; Aurukun baptisms; Uki the policeman, 1964?; Neil McBGarvie helping a MI (Bentinck Is.?) boy (Geoffrey Loogatta) at the Aurukun Manual Training Centre, 1968; portraits of Aboriginal youths identified by first name; Billy Mammus of Aurukun; ‘Kendall River tribe. Some of those who attended church …’; ‘Ron Denham, Archer Smith, John Koowarta, Clarence Peinkinna, on fence line south of Archer …’; ‘Aurukun community meeting, Ian Peinkinna, Billy Peinyeka, Joe Yankaforta[?], 1969’; Arukun class and chapel service, 1968; ‘(Papa McKenzie) After 40 years, with some who have been with him for the whole forty’; ‘Nyarlot, now deceased’; ‘Geoffrey Yankaforta, Pat Pootchemunka, Roy Landry, Rupert Crothakchalkerin, Neil McGarvie. TLEC beach camp Aurukun 1969 at False Pera Head’; ‘Johnny [Martun-?] (dec) & Toby Pamtoarda[?] (dec)’

MI loose photographs include: Girls’ dormitory, MI, 1926; ‘1st Christmas at MI, 1925 [portrait of 3 men and a woman:] Spider, Agnes (from mainland), Paddy, Gully’; portrait of group of 8 identified by first name ‘who were received into the membership of the Church on Easter Sunday 1929… all of MI’; cyclone damage at MI mission station, undated (ca.1926?); ‘Paddy & Gully & children‘; ‘Bentinck Islanders visit our camp, Sept 1933’; Hick – one of MI [?[ bright boys with a string of whiting caught with a bent pin & a length of cotton’; Bentinck Islanders at MI, Aug 1947; MI – Traditional ceremonies; Most undated; dates include 1947, 1967, 1969, 1970?

Approx. 205 photographs of Weipa & Mapoon, ca.1906-1966, including 2 albums (Weipa Mission Station 1914-1915 (23 photographs), Weipa ca.1922 (48 photographs) and 4 mounted studio portraits of Mr & Mrs Hey and Rev and Mrs Ward.
Loose photographs of Weipa and Mapoon include: Women’s Guild of Weipa; ‘T. Bartlett lunch at road side with Ian Peinkenna [Peinkinna?] & Fred Kerindun on the way to told Mapoon, 1966’; Amy King & Alexander McLellan; Elizabeth Archie; ‘David Delta & Roy Landis working on new mission house building at New Mapoon’; ‘Weipa – New village opening’ Copy prints from envelope marked ‘Early Mapoon’ (include views of Weipa), ca.1906: ‘Mapoon - Carrying Mrs Hey ashore from “J. G. Ward”’; ‘Mapoon girls working in garden’; ‘Aboriginal men going hunting carrying spears’; ‘Pioneer missionaries of Weipa – Miss Schick, Mrs Brown, Zoe Brown, Rev. E. Brown’; Mapoon Aboriginal men’s brigade; Aboriginal men’s and women’s brass bands.

1 photo album (in “Smith’s Insurance” binder): approx. 590 7x5cm. b&w snapshots (and 1 loose 21 x 27 cm. photoprint – group of men exercising, Korea?). Ernabella 1946, 1950, Ernabella and Hermannsburg 1948, Kunmunya 1947-1948, New Hebrides – Efate, Malo, Nguna, Santo, Tangoa. Undated; 2 photographs of Tangoa Teacher Training Institute students dated 1945

PXD 1335/BOX 4
23 loose photographs and 1 album (20 photographs) from envelope marked ‘Aborigines – Stations – Old and older photos of possible historical interest’. Mostly uncaptioned, undated. Include photograph of Aboriginal man and woman captioned ‘Jack Charger[?] & Jessica’; Hope Valley; Uki & Archiewald.

Approx. 70 photographs from envelope marked ‘Historical general’. Include views from Ernabella, 1942, with identifications by first name; Mrs G. I.[?] Beard, Port George IV mission (wife of Assistant Missionary); Kunmunya; Aneityum (New Hebrides)

Approx. 60 photographs marked ‘Miscellaneous’: Include views and portraits from Oodnadatta, Rote Island (Indonesia), Japan, China, Hong Kong; FAO photographs of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Egypt, Indonesia, Mexico





Approx. 61 loose and mounted photographs of Papua New Guinea, ca. 1933-1970, including PNGSI[?]

PXD 1335/BOX 5
Indonesia: 1 mounted photograph (‘Indonesian nurse girl’ with baby) and 1 photo album (118 photographs: ‘In remembrance of the visit of the Australian Church team to Indonesia, September 22 –October 17, 1962, with the compliments of the National Council of Churches in Indonesia’).

PXD 1335/BOX 6 - PXD 1335/BOX 11
New Hebrides (Vanuatu): approx. 737 photographs, inc. 1 album (48 photographs): chiefly silver gelatin; some albumen. Some are captioned, most are undated; ca.1900-1960s. Include portraits of teachers, students and nurses, some identified.

PXD 1335/BOX 12
Approx. 109 loose and mounted photographs and 1 album (approx.208 photographs) relating to missions in India. Includes 1 folder (45 photographs) from envelope marked ‘India – Historical’.

PXD 1335/BOX 13 - PXD 1335/BOX 14
Approx. 514 loose and mounted photographs and 2 albums (approx. 124 photographs) relating to missions in Korea.

1 plaque : black lacquer and mother of pearl on wood. Shows a cross superimposed on map of Korea with Korean script and date '1966.9.7'. 37 x 26 x 2 cm.

PXD 1335/BOX 15
13 mounted enlargements including portraits from Mowanjum, Aurukun, Ernabella; and Ernabella Choir at Moomba Festival, 1966.

PXD 1335/BOX 16
Mounted enlargements from New Hebrides (6) and North Korea (4).


SLIDES 273/BOX 1
18 glass lantern slides: Early New Hebrides (10); Ernabella (8).

SLIDES 273/BOX 2
21 reels of 35mm. b&w slides. Subjects include Ernabella, Kunmunya, Wotjulum, undated (1940s-50s?); New Hebrides, 1945; India (Shanti); Korea.

Approx. 33 35mm. col. slides , labeled “Santo - Tangoa – Vila - Lenakel”
15 35mm. col. slides, labeled “Ernabella”

Approx. 22 35mm. col. slides of Magam (India); Port Vila, 1960; includes Aurukun (1).

1 5.5 x 5.5cm. col. transparency, labeled “Owen Hall?”

Includes 5 manuscript, typescript and processed typescript scripts and indexes to Ernabella, New Hebrides, India, and other unidentified filmstrips.


ON 548
Approx. 2941 negatives (35mm. and 5.5 x 5.5 cm.) of missions at Ernabella; Aurukun; Kunmunya 1948; Weipa; Mornington Island; "'64 Audit trip"; Thursday Island and New Mapoon; Mowanjum; Papua New Guinea; Indonesia; New Hebrides; India; Korea. Some are captioned on the negative packet.

Approx. 600 35mm. negatives (b&w & col.) in binder titled 'Reproductions'. With handwritten key to approx. 120 negatives. Various subjects including Mapoon and Mornington Island.

5 reels 35mm. negative film (approx. 200 frames): Diary of Rev. John Geddes, DD. First Presbyterian missionary in the New Hebrides. Vols. 1-5 (1 volume/reel, not mounted on microfilm spool; possibly the same document as at PMB 418).


NCY 63
705 uncaptioned, undated photographs of Australian and New Hebrides? missions.

35mm. b&w aperture card negatives at NCY 63/1-705

35mm. positive and negative reels at MAV/FM4/10972

This pictorial material is part of Presbyterian Church of Australia. Board of Ecumenical Mission and Relation records, ca. 1857-ca. 1967 papers at MLMSS 1893

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4 microfilm reels transferred to PMB microfilm collection:

PMB 30: Newspaper cuttings relating to the labour trade between Queensland and the New Hebrides, 1890-1895, collected by the Rev. Dr. John G. Paton (Positive)

PMB 32: Paton, Rev. Frederick J. - New Hebrides Journals, April 23, 1893-Dec. 31, 1908 (Dup. neg)

PMB 33: Paton, Mrs Helen I. M. R. - New Hebrides Journals - January 1, 1903-March 2, 1905 (Dup. neg)

PMB 418: Geddie, Rev. Dr John - New Hebrides Diaries, 1848-58 (Original positive)

NCY 63: nitrate negatives destroyed after copying, 10/4/1987

"All Ernabella Mission photos. Photographer Rev. H. Aikin (dcd). Surviving wife Dr Margaret Aikin, Toorak, Melbourne" (note found with collection, discarded)