..CAPNO Heathcock.R1.BW

..DEPOSITR Ruth Heathcock

..CAPTION LIST covers N4196 (A3), N4202, N4203 OPTION: some A3

material

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..NUMBER N4196.05-06

..DATE August 1926

..PLACE Oorindi, Blue Mud Bay, NT

..DSCRPTN totem sticks (A3)

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..NUMBER N4196.07-08

..DATE August 1926

..PLACE Oorindi, Blue Mud Bay, NT

..DSCRPTN nungabuyu native totem sticks (A3)

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..NUMBER N4196.09-10

..PLACE NT

..DSCRPTN turtle and eggs (A3)

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..NUMBER N4196.11-13

..PLACE NT

..DSCRPTN circumcision corroboree (A3)

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..NUMBER N4202.04

..DATE ?1940's

..PLACE NT

..SUBJECT Micheal Blacklock, baby; Ruth Heathcock

..DSCRPTN this baby premature born at Marranboy Hostel. So tiny I

laid it in saucer of olive oil and laid it in warm oven where

after massage and mouth to mouth, it started to breathe. Then

laid it on bare hot skin of old Paddy, the 104 temperature

patient while we christened it Michael Blacklock. Paddy said

"whats that, a bandicoot?" It looked like newly hatched bird,

featherless skin covered bones. Weighed one and three quarter

pounds. This photo, Michael at 6 months, fit and intelligent,

holding my engagement ring on piece of cotton. That ring went

over his wrist at birth. Mrs Blacklock was conveyed by railway

quad, pushed 15 mile by fettlers through severe electric storm

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..NUMBER N4202.05

..PLACE Borroloola, NT

..DSCRPTN police station - Angle Iron homestead, but paper bark

covers this roof, showing in photo, cool and weatherproof. From

there I left in dugout conoe for trip down the McArthur River to

Gulf, then out 7 mile in ocean, to get to Wearinin River of land

Foster

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..NUMBER N4202.06

..PLACE Hodson River, NT

..DSCRPTN this foot printed into solid basalt rock was sent to

Canberra Museum - now cannot be traced. So on that account we

went to NT in 1963 to receive some more photographs of area and

other prints

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..NUMBER N4202.07

..PLACE Halls Creek area, NT

..DSCRPTN camel team - Halls Creek police patrol

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..NUMBER N4202.08

..PLACE NT

..SUBJECT Ted Heathcock; Big Pat; Dick

..DSCRPTN with prisoners

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..NUMBER N4202.09

..PLACE NT

..SUBJECT 'Smiler', second from left

..DSCRPTN a few natives getting ready for a corroboree. Ted first

saw 'Smiler' when he was about 10 yrs. At 15 yrs he was carried

by mate 100 miles like a picaninny from coast to Roper police

station. A leper, now in leprosarium, Darwin. Both legs useless

when I tended him, being eaten away from feet to knees. Boy on

end of line also a leper - see the white dead patches on lower

legs

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..NUMBER N4202.10

..PLACE NT

..DSCRPTN Teddy's boys at corroboree

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..NUMBER N4202.11

..DATE c1921

..PLACE NT/WA

..DSCRPTN pale lubra - one with tail. Auburn hair and blue eyes,

pale skin, broad features - typical albino lubra. Ted brought her

into station. 4 in tail. Civilized Abos at camp killed her in

their fright of devil

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..NUMBER N4203.12

..PLACE Groote Eylandt, NT

..DSCRPTN our canoe - the boys made it and this is the one they

did the 30 mile across Gulf emergency trip. It sank at Roper

River next morning

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..NUMBER N4203.13

..PLACE NT

..SUBJECT Teddy Heathcock and his boys

..DSCRPTN [with boat on the beach]

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..NUMBER N4203.14

..DATE September 1926

..PLACE Apperamudgee camp, Winchelsea Island, NT

..DSCRPTN beche-de-mer (trepang) drying and curing on open tray

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..NUMBER N4203.15

..DATE September 1926

..PLACE Winchelsea Island, NT

..DSCRPTN placing trepang in boilers

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..NUMBER N4203.16

..PLACE NT

..SUBJECT Ted and Ruth Heathcock (sitting)

..DSCRPTN [on boat]

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..NUMBER N4203.17

..DATE September 1926

..PLACE Emerald River, Groote Eylandt, NT

..DSCRPTN Groote Eylandt natives on the Emerald River - so named

because it is a most beautiful pale green always

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..NUMBER N4203.18

..PLACE Emerald River, Groote Eylandt, NT

..DSCRPTN (post card)

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..NUMBER N4203.19

..DATE January 1926

..PLACE Sir Edward Pellew group, South West Island, NT

..DSCRPTN lepers gathered from here for me to tend

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..NUMBER N4203.20

..PLACE Roper River, NT

..DSCRPTN the canoe that brought me back to Roper River, 250

miles. Just below my ?... on the Roper River

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..NUMBER N4203.21

..PLACE Mc Arthur River, NT

..DSCRPTN spearing fish (bing bong) in Gulf at the mouth of

McArthur River - tons of fish - you can go out for 3 miles when

tide is low and see the bottom of the ocean (post card)

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