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Article: Aboriginal plant names in northeastern Arnhem Land: Groote Eylandt--Enindilyakwa language; Yirrkala--Rirratjingu language.(RESEARCH REPORT)
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- Australian Aboriginal Studies
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- March 22, 2006
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The American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (1948)
In 1946, Joseph Garnett Wood, Professor of Botany (1935-1959) in the University of Adelaide (who had spent many happy days exploring with Aborigines at the Point Macleay Mission on the Coorong of South Australia where his maternal uncle was in charge), encouraged his BSc (Hons) student, Ray Specht, to join the National Geographic Expedition to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, as botanist, ecologist and ethnobotanist--without remuneration. The expedition, under the leadership of Charles Mountford, an amateur ethnologist, was delayed until 1948 to enable scientists of the Smithsonian ...