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Charles Pearcy Mountford OBE (8 May 1890, Hallett – 16 November 1976, Norwood) was an Australian anthropologist and photographer. He is known for his pioneering work on Indigenous Australians and his depictions and descriptions of their art. He also led the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land.Mountford's written works, along with those by contemporaries, foreshadowed subsequent scholarly investigations like T. G. H. Strehlow's Journey to Horseshoe Bend (1969) and iconic late-20th-century works such as Stephen Muecke, Krim Benterrak, and Paddy Roe's Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology (1984). Mountford's final book, Nomads of the Australian Desert, was the subject of an important court case due to its inclusion of culturally restricted content. Early years Mountford's father Charles married Arabella Windsor and moved into the house on a block farmed by his father at Hallett on the railway line 32 km north from Burra in South Australia. In the house his son Charles was born and was educated in the one-room local school. The family income was constrained and they moved to Georgetown and then, when Mountford (who adopted the nickname 'Monty') was ten, to Moonta, seeking better circumstances. He took work at the chaff mill managed by his father, laboured at surface jobs in the copper mine, cut scrub and quarried stone, before joining his father in selling stereoscope slides, an enterprise continued after they moved again, to Adelaide. After the business failed, he took work as a stable hand at Kilkenny, then as a striker for a blacksmith before being employed for a longer term as a conductor on the horse tram service, continuing when the line was electrified. In the meantime he studied at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries and in January 1913 obtained a permanent position in the engineering workshops at the General Post Office in the Engineering Branch of the Post and Telegraph Department. He was continuing studies in mathematics and natural science at the School of Mines and the University of Adelaide, although without prospect or graduating since he had never matriculated. In 1914 he married Florence Purnell at Thebarton and they had two children, Kenneth and Joyce. In 1920 was promoted to the Darwin Post Office as Mechanic-in-Charge, work that took him to remote outposts in which he became familiar with Aboriginal communities. Suffering poor health from the tropical climate and hard work, Mountford, then thirty-three, was posted back to the Adelaide GPO workshops where his family lived at 52 West Street, Torrensville. When Florence died aged 34 on 30 May 1925, Mountford, seeking distraction, revived his interest in indigenous culture and artworks in particular, and while staying with his father in Dawson they found at nearby Merowie Springs a rock with dozens of carved grooves which he traced and photographed. Ethnologist Norman B. Tindale at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide was interested and he and Mountford collaborated on a short paper "Native Markings on Rocks at Morowie, South Australia" was read to the Royal Society of South Australia in 1926, the first of many which Mountford was to present to learned societies; in 1928 he spoke again on the subject to the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. Exploration for indigenous art Mountford and his father became founding members of the Anthropological Society of South Australia in 1926. Encouraged by the society's president, Frederic Wood Jones, he conducted surveys of engravings in the Panaramittee and Mount Chambers Gorge areas. On October 28, 1933, at the Gartrell Memorial Methodist Church in Rose Park, he wed Bessie Ilma Johnstone, a 42-year-old civil servant. In 1935, he took on the role of secretary for a board of inquiry tasked with investigating reports of mistreatment of Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory, specifically at Hermannsburg and Uluru by mounted constable William (Bill) McKinnon. One of the incidents being investigated was the shooting death of Yokununna on 13 October 1934. In the same year, he joined an expedition organised by the University of Adelaide's board for anthropological research to the Warburton Range in Western Australia, alongside Tindale, C. J. Hackett, a physical anthropologist, and E. O. Stocker, a cine-photographer. Mountford contributed as a stills photographer and art recorder, amassing numerous photographs and over 400 crayon drawings illustrating various sites and dreaming tracks.After participating in the board's expedition to the Granites in the Northern Territory in 1936, Mountford joined another expedition to the Nepabunna Mission in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia in 1937. He revisited Nepabunna multiple times, creating an unprecedented ethnographic record of the Adnyamathanha people through his photographs, recordings, and notes on mythology, material culture, and social practices. In 1938, he accompanied (Sir) Archibald Grenfell Price's expedition to Mount Dare station to investigate a reported discovery of the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt's party.Mountford also served as lecturer in ethnology for the Workers' Educational Association and authored further scientific papers as well as a series of newspaper articles. He had completed a two-year term as an honorary assistant in ethnology at the South Australian Museum. In addition to his anthropological work, he had conducted successful research within the PMG's Department, examining the corrosive effects of electrolysis on underground cables. During 1938, Mountford, taking a year-long sabbatical from the PMG, served as an acting ethnologist at the museum and conceived of taking a camel expedition to central Australia with the intention of studying the artistic expressions of the Pitjantjatjara and Yankuntjatjara peoples. Adolphus Elkin dissuaded the Carnegie trust from financing Mountford's endeavour, citing his amateur status. Nonetheless, he garnered support from the museum board for anthropological research and from private sponsors. Collaborating with Lauri Sheard and camel handler Tommy Dodd, and accompanied by Bessie, the four-month expedition in from Ernabella to Uluru in 1940 resulted in an examination of the art and mythology surrounding the landmarks Uluru and the Kata Tjuta. The results of this endeavor were showcased through photographic exhibitions and a prize-winning colour film created in 1940, which subsequently became the foundation for the book Brown Men and Red Sand. In 1942, he embarked on a journey through the MacDonnell Ranges, meticulously documenting the art associated with sacred objects. His experiences were captured in the film Tjurunga. Notably, Mountford also produced another influential film, Namatjira the Painter, and the illustrated book The Art of Albert Namatjira (Melbourne, 1944), works which contributed to shaping his later career. Brown Men and Red Sand Mountford's publication Brown M.... Discover the L M Mountford popular books. Find the top 100 most popular L M Mountford books.

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