Naming the Dead Heart

Hillier's Map and Reuther's Gazetteer of 2,468 Placenames in North-Eastern South Australia

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ID20076412
AuthorsPhilip Jones (0000-0003-2860-1660, corresponding author)
Year2009
Publication date2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Land is a Map (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU)
DOI10.22459/lm.03.2009.14
OpenAlexW2912265714
ISBN9781921536564
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited1

This paper is about the Hillier Map of Aboriginal placenames of north-eastern South Australia. By 1904, when this map was drawn (Fig. A couple of years earlier at the height of a severe drought, the last Aboriginal people living beyond the bounds of European influence had chosen to leave their Simpson Desert home. l Their destinations were the remote cattle stations such as Alton Downs, Cowarie and Macumba, established on the fringes of the Desert. These isolated settlements, run by Europeans who came to rely almost entirely upon Aboriginallmowledge and expertise in this harsh country, became the foci of subsistence and sociability for remnants of Wangkangurru, Ngamini, Yarluyendi and related groups. Their choice contrasted to that of the greater number of Aboriginal people from the region who had progressively 'come in' to the Killalpaninna mission station on the Cooper since its foundation in 1866. It is the descendants of those small and vulnerable mixed communities, comprising representatives of different language groups, who have maintained an unbroken presence in the northern part of the region until the present day and who preserve the greater store of knowledge about Aboriginal placenames.'

Cartography · Geography · Australian Indigenous Culture and History

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