Western Australian Museum

[Letter requesting boomerangs be sent to Canada]

Author: Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association of Australia. West Australian Branch; Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963

Call no: A13-73-3-57

Year: 1 August 1951

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The Association has received a parcel of stamps from an ex-soldier in Canada who is interested in native weapons and who would like some boomerangs for his collection. Can the Museum provide some?

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[Response to letter dated 01 August 1951. Boomerangs not available]

Author: Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963; Totally and Permanently Disabled Soldiers' Association of Australia. West Australian Branch

Call no: A13-73-3-58

Year: 2 August 1951

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Glauert regrets it is not possible for the Museum to provide boomerangs, as genuine articles are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. They are not made by traditional methods anymore. He notes that people in Perth no doubt

have them hanging on their walls and that some further enquiry may result in a positive result.

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[Response to letter dated 30 April 1951. Receipt of stone tjuringa and article on Djamar the Creator]

Author: Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963; Worms, Ernest Ailred

Call no: A13-73-3-56

Year: 29 May 1951

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Glauert acknowledges receipt of a very fine stone tjuringa and Rev. Worms article on Djamar the Creator adding that the Museum is very anxious to build up its collection of Australian material before it's too late. He laments that

even now many objects received are made with the help of steel rather than by traditional methods.

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[requesting loan of aboriginal objects for illustration purposes]

Author: University of Melbourne; Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963

Call no: A13-73-3-61

Year: 5 August 1952

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Donald Norman from the Anthropolgy Department of Melbourne University is completing a comprehensive work on Australian Aborigines with a special reference to their material culture, including weapons and implements. He requests the loan of a kodj axe, specimen E.39.

Norman also asks if Glauert has any other implements or utensils, such as tjuring or bull-roarers. He recalls seeing wooden vessls made from knots of trees which would be of special interest.

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[Response to letter dated 16 August 1951: native grinding bowl found in the Kimberley - is of little significance]

Author: Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963; Amalgamated Prospectors and Leaseholders Association of Western Australia

Call no: A13-73-3-60

Year: 21 August 1951

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[An enquiry has been received about a native grinding bowl found in the Kimberley]

Author: Amalgamated Prospectors and Leaseholders Association of Western Australia; Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963

Call no: A13-73-3-59

Year: 16 August 1951

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Pigments used are red ochre, yellow ochre, pipe clay and charcoal. Certain rock paintings also include blue, the identity of which has not yet been identified.

All pigments are mined locally by the aborigines and are at times objects of barter.

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[Request for information about pigments used by aborigines for personal decoration]

Author: Morrison, J; Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963

Call no: A13-73-3-63

Year: 22 November 1953

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Morrison of Nant Mine, Carmarthen, South Wales in Britain has an interest in the nature of pigments used for personal decoration in various parts of the world and requests information about those used by Australian aborigines.

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[Response to letter received in response to donation of grindstone requesting correction to donation details]

Author: Bettison, T. L. P.; Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963

Call no: A13-73-3-64

Year: 9 July 1954

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The object was donated by the son of T. L. P. Bettison (Mr T. K. Bettison) and corrections are sought for the donation details. Mention of the object on the local Pingelly radio station have sparked interest and a number of other people have come forward with similar items. Are these rare? Are they of interest or value to the Museum? Please advise.

T.L. P. Bettison would also like to know the name of the implement and the pronunciation.

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[Response to letter of 1 December 1953 which provided pigment information]

Author: Morrison, J; Glauert, Ludwig, 1879-1963

Call no: A13-73-3-65

Year: 27 January 1954

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