..CAPNO Hicks.C1.BW

..DEPOSITR Cedric Stanton Hicks OPTION: caption list for open

collection only

..CAPTION LIST covers N96 NB: from D Tuzin's manuscript 'Just in

Time'

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..NUMBER N96.01

..DSCRPTN time scale adapted from Warren Clarke, to demonstrate

the long period of Australian occupation by Aborigines

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..NUMBER N96.02

..DSCRPTN Continental Australia showing location of tribal

boundaries; area 85,000 sq miles, approx the size of West Germany

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..NUMBER N96.03

..PLACE Cockatoo Creek, NT

..DSCRPTN pushing the truck across the River Lander

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..NUMBER N96.04

..PLACE Mount Liebig, NT

..DSCRPTN Colson's camel train

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..NUMBER N96.05

..PLACE Cockatoo Creek, NT

..DSCRPTN camel driver at well sunk in the 'soak' of the river

bed by Colson

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..NUMBER N96.06

..PLACE Cockatoo Creek, NT

..SUBJECT Dr R F Matters and author, D Tuzin

..DSCRPTN checking and calibrating Benedict's field metabolimeter

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..NUMBER N96.11

..PLACE Cockatoo Creek, NT

..DSCRPTN typical scene in male camp. Aborigine in foreground is

using quartz chisel fixed to the end of his woomera to add

finishing touches to a spear. Note whitened string bands and

eagle feathers in the coiffure. The latter serves as a receptacle

for pieces of red, yellow and white rock pigments, fire making

gear, quartz knife and churings (engraved wood or stone totem

identification documentation)

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..NUMBER N96.12

..PLACE Cockatoo Creek, NT

..DSCRPTN typical men's camp. Natives engaged in various

activities

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..NUMBER N96.13

..PLACE Mount Liebig, NT

..DSCRPTN the Physiologists' camp. The two near tents are

laboratories. Gantry for weighing native

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..NUMBER N96.14

..PLACE Mount Liebig, NT

..DSCRPTN the two Pintobe [Pintubi] scouts on arrival at the

Ngalia camp. They have laid down their spears. Note freshly

whitened string headbands. The ahir of the nearer native contains

various necessities qv. Clumps of spinifex in background

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..NUMBER N96.15

..PLACE Mount Liebig, NT

..SUBJECT Eldridge (L), Moore (R), Peter (extreme R)

..DSCRPTN the two Pintobe [Pintubi] scouts at dawn on the day

following their arrival. Note the Benedict field Metabolimeters

connected to the mouth piece of the Native. White ashes of fire

evident. This is a typical metabolism measurement procedure, and

is perhaps the most remarkable incident of a remarkable series.

The onlookers are Ngalias. Time about 7pm

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..NUMBER N96.16

..PLACE Mount Liebig, NT

..SUBJECT Eldridge

..DSCRPTN collecting Douglas Bag of expired air. Note ashes of

fire

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..NUMBER N96.18

..PLACE Ernabella, SA

..DSCRPTN camels at the waterhole. Note trees along the course of

Ferdinand Creek

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..NUMBER N96.19

..PLACE Ernabella, SA

..SUBJECT Dr O'Connor, author D Tuzin recording

..DSCRPTN measuring blood pressure. Note pubic string tassels

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..NUMBER N96.20

..DSCRPTN chart used in notebooks to record skin temperature and

Kala thermometer and air temperature readings

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..NUMBER N96.21

..PLACE Ernabella, SA

..SUBJECT Eldridge and D Tuzin using Sir Charles Martin's skin

thermometers; Dr O'Connor with Sphygmo-bolometer; Peter, our

interpreter, with hat

..DSCRPTN Gantry is for weighing natives

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..NUMBER N96.22

..PLACE Ernabella, SA

..SUBJECT Dr O'Connor

..DSCRPTN making pulse/volume measurements. Note diminutive size

of instrument, and the strip of smoked recording paper

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..NUMBER N96.23

..PLACE Ernabella, SA

..SUBJECT Dr O'Connor and D Tuzin

..DSCRPTN making simultaneous records of pulse/volume and skin

temperature. Native in background wearing proudly a camel

driver's shirt

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..NUMBER N96.24

..PLACE Ernabella, SA

..SUBJECT D Tuzin

..DSCRPTN drying fermenting wet Duboisia hopwoodii

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..NUMBER N96.26

..PLACE Mount Liebig, NT

..DSCRPTN Aborigine making string. The windbreak with spear and

white ash of a fire are showing

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..NUMBER N96.27

..DSCRPTN a handful of witchetty grubs, relished as a fatty

delicacy and nutritional need

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..NUMBER N96.28

..PLACE Ernabella, SA

..SUBJECT Dr O'Connor with Sphygmo-bolometer; D Tuzin with

thermocouple

..DSCRPTN natives watching tests on white and black subjects;

note the hairdo

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..NUMBER N96.29

..PLACE Ernabella, SA

..DSCRPTN Aborigine lying in sun with bolometer attached at

wrist, and thermocouple resting on lower arm. A radiation

thermometer lies on the ground

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..NUMBER N96.30

..DSCRPTN Duboisia Myoporcides: the plant first discovered and

classified by Robert Brown. It was identified by its flowers as

shown. They are white, tinged with violet. Approx quarter size.

(Photo by courtesy of Division of Plant Industry CSIRO)

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..NUMBER N96.31

..DSCRPTN Duboisia Leichardtil: Approx 1.5 times natural size.

The flowers are much larger than those of D Myoporcides. (Photo

by courtesy of Division of Plant Industry CSIRO)

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..NUMBER N96.32

..DSCRPTN Duboisia Hopwoodii, the Musgrave Range species produced

Nor-nicotine, which was isolated and identifies by author (D

Tuzin). Known to Luritja tribes as Emu Poison. (Figure from C

Chippendale 'Poisonous Plants of the NT')

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..NUMBER N96.33

..DSCRPTN map showing distribution of the thre Duboisia species

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..NUMBER N96.34

..DSCRPTN map showing areas of distribution of 6 only of the 40

species and sub-species of Nicotiana native to Australia

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..NUMBER N96.35

..PLACE Musgrave Ranges, SA

..SUBJECT Dr O'Connor and D Tuzin

..DSCRPTN conducting simultaneous measurements in a typical

setting

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..NUMBER N96.36

..PLACE Musgrave Ranges, SA

..DSCRPTN pulling kangaroo tendon for use as binding material for

spear points, woomera chisels etc. Wound on when moist, it dries

with a tension of steel wire

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..NUMBER N96.37

..PLACE summit of Mount Liebig, NT

..SUBJECT D Tuzin with Rev Kramer (central figure)

..DSCRPTN whose reputation among the tribes made our expeditions

experiments possible, together with author, singing Swiss airs

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..NUMBER N96.38

..PLACE Mount Liebig, NT

..SUBJECT D Tuzin

..DSCRPTN measuring volume of expired air in Douglas Bag. A

simultaneous duplicate carbon-dioxide estimation being made

electrically as check on gas analysis method

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..NUMBER N96.39

..PLACE Cockatoo Creek, NT

..DSCRPTN showing native with tourniquet on left arm and blood

dripping from venesection. Native clenches and unclenches fist to

accelerate the flow. Note tuft of eagle down, whitened with

chalk, a precious pigment which they carry for decorative

purposes

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..NUMBER N96.40

..PLACE Ernabella, SA

..DSCRPTN sunrise. Aborigines in their camp after completing

experiments. Note spears and boomerang lying on windbreak of

grass and scrub. Note also white ashes of fire behind Aborigine

on extreme left. The boxes contain the apparatus

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..NUMBER N96.41

..PLACE Ernabella, SA

..DSCRPTN Colson's caravan

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..NUMBER N96.42

..DSCRPTN locality map. The rectangle bounded by West Australian

border, represents approximately the region occupied by tribal

territories ...

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..NUMBER N96.43

..PLACE Ernabella, SA

..SUBJECT Moore

..DSCRPTN at the gas analysis apparatus. Note fly net, and

imagine him sitting there all day!

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