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Beneath the billabongs: The scientific legacy of Robert Rush Miller
Gifford Miller and Robert Cashner
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Robert Rush Miller was one of the youngest members of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. Miller’s son, Gifford Miller, and son-in-law, Robert Cashner, provide insight into his life and work.
Collecting Australia at the Smithsonian: 150 years and still going
Dr Adrienne L Kaeppler, National Museum of Natural History, United States
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Adrienne Kaeppler, Curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, provides an overview of the museum’s Australian collections, focusing on the Arnhem Land collection which comprises more than 400 artefacts.
Hidden for 60 years: The motion picture films of the American–Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
Josh Harris (paper read by Mark Jenkins)
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Josh Harris describes the rediscovery in the archives of The National Geographic Society of 12,000 feet of film shot by Howell Walker during the 1948 Expedition and the in-depth steps that were taken to preserve and bring the footage back to life.
Making a sea change: Rock art, archaeology and the enduring legacy of McCarthy’s research on Groote Eylandt
Dr Anne Clarke, University of Sydney and Ursula Frederick, Australian National University
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Dr Anne Clarke and Ms Ursula Frederick revisit Frederick McCarthy’s research in relation to their own more recent analyses of rock art sites on Groote Eylandt, using sites that were not recorded in 1948, and focusing on cross-cultural interaction.
Appraising the legacy of the Arnhem Land Expedition: An insider’s perspective
Emeritus Professor Raymond Louis Specht
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Raymond Louis Specht, botanist on the 1948 Expedition, reflects on the influence of the Expedition and discusses his botanical investigations.
Birds on the wire: Colin Simpson and the emergence of the radio documentary feature
Tony MacGregor, Arts Editor, ABC Radio National
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Tony MacGregor examines the 1948 ABC radio feature about the Expedition both as a remarkable contemporary account and as a media object of an emerging form – the radio documentary feature.
The ‘exciting thing was the landscape’: Raymond Specht, a botanist in the field
Dr Lynne McCarthy, National Museum of Australia
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 18 November 2009
Lynne McCarthy explores the work of Raymond Louis Specht, Expedition botanist, and considers his botanical collection as both a process and a product.
‘A Robinson Crusoe in Arnhem Land …’: Howell Walker, National Geographic, and the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition
Mark Jenkins, writer, editor and historian
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Mark Jenkins explores the role played by the Expedition’s primary American sponsor – National Geographic – and its intrepid representative, Howell Walker.
Unpacking the testimony of Gerald Blitner: An Indigenous perspective on the Arnhem Land Expedition
Martin Thomas, University of Sydney
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Gerald Blitner served as a guide and translator for the Expedition. Here, Martin Thomas explores his oral testimony alongside archival evidence, including observations recorded by the Expedition party, to unpack their intercultural exchanges.
Inside Mountford’s tent: paint, politics and paperwork
Dr Philip Jones, South Australian Museum
Barks, Birds and Billabongs symposium, 17 November 2009
Charles Mountford lacked formal credentials as an anthropologist or scientist, yet he led the largest and most complex scientific expedition to remote Australia. Dr Philip Jones explores Mountford’s contribution and the controversy around his leadership.
