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Visitors to Hermannsburg: an essay on cross-cultural learning
Heritage of Namatjira : the watercolourists of central Australia • Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Published In 1992 • Pages: [137]-175 , [6] plates
By: Hardy, Jane Marie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The focus of this study is on the life and work of the western Aranda artist Albert Namatjira. In contrast to documents 42-45 in this file that also contain biographical information on Namatjira, this study stresses the early years (ca. 1930s) of Namatjira's training as an artist under the tutelage of Rex Battarbee, a renowned Victorian watercolorist. The essay emphasizes the close relationship between the two men and the various influences that affected Namatjira's work. In agreement with Jones (see 45: Jones in this file), Albert Namatjira is represented as a self-motivated individual whose ambition and pragmatism were major factors in helping him find success.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Representative art
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aranda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Australia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Artisan
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1900-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hermannsburg, Northern Territory, Australia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jane Hardy
- Not all of the plates mentioned in the text have been included
- Bibliographical references are in document number 47
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aranda (Australian people)