This website showcases notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations and photographs collected during Spencer and Gillen’s studies in anthropology between 1875 and 1912.
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The Spencer and Gillen collection includes objects, photographs, film, sound recordings and manuscripts from many different museums across the world
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The Spencer and Gillen collection includes objects, photographs, film, sound recordings and manuscripts from many different museums across the world
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Look for objects from a particular language group
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Use different maps to find the places where Spencer and Gillen collected their material. Find objects that relate to a specific place or area.
!['Group of Old Men - Arunta Engwura Ceremony', Spencer and Gillen Collection, Museum victoria](/img/home-images/XP14280.jpg)
Find many of the people (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) that are depicted or mentioned in the collection
!['Notes Alice Springs 1926', Baldwin Spencer Collection, Museum Victoria](/img/home-images/XM6216.jpg)
The Spencer and Gillen collection includes objects, photographs, film, sound recordings and manuscripts from many different museums across the world
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Look for objects from a particular language group
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Use different maps to find the places where Spencer and Gillen collected their material. Find objects that relate to a specific place or area.
!['Young Warumungu woman, Tennant Creek, Central Australia, 1901', Spencer and Gillen Collection, Museum Victoria](/img/home-images/XP14400.jpg)
Find many of the people (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) that are depicted or mentioned in the collection
!['Chance and wagon leaving Oodnadatta, Central Australia, March 1901', Spencer and Gillen Collection, Museum Victoria](/img/home-images/XP14017.jpg)
The Spencer and Gillen collection includes objects, photographs, film, sound recordings and manuscripts from many different museums across the world
![](/img/home-images/X32561.jpg)
Look for objects from a particular language group
![](/img/home-images/map2.jpg)
Use different maps to find the places where Spencer and Gillen collected their material. Find objects that relate to a specific place or area.
!['Barrow Creek June 1901', Spencer and Gillen Collection, Museum Victoria](/img/home-images/XP14574.jpg)
Find many of the people (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) that are depicted or mentioned in the collection