Aboriginal prehistory, 1951-81

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Containers:
Box 11-12
Component identifier:
Series 10
Content Summary:

Bickel wrote several pieces on Aboriginal prehistory, including the script of an ABC television documentary, The antique Australian. Articles include 'The ancients', 'The antique continent', 'The rock art story', and 'Man of the dreaming'.

The series contains a biography of Norman Tindale of the South Australian Museum, several booklets written or co-written by Tindale and published by the Museum between 1951 and 1958, and notes from Museum field trips. It also contains material on a significant discovery of stone-age tools made by the Museum in 1969.

There are a number of published and unpublished articles on Aborigines and Aboriginal prehistory, several slides and photo negatives of rock art, road maps of Victoria and the Kununurra region of WA, and notes and drafts (incomplete) of articles on Aboriginal prehistory.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The National Library of Australia purchased the papers from Mr Bickel in November 1984.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn612953).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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