Spencer & Gillen

A journey through Aboriginal Australia

This website showcases notebooks, films, audio recordings, illustrations and photographs collected during Spencer and Gillen’s studies in anthropology between 1875 and 1912.

The Spencer and Gillen collection includes objects, photographs, film, sound recordings and manuscripts from many different museums across the world

The Spencer and Gillen collection includes objects, photographs, film, sound recordings and manuscripts from many different museums across the world

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

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

The Spencer and Gillen collection includes objects, photographs, film, sound recordings and manuscripts from many different museums across the world

Look for objects from a particular language group

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

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

The Spencer and Gillen collection includes objects, photographs, film, sound recordings and manuscripts from many different museums across the world

Look for objects from a particular language group

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

Find many of the people (Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal) that are depicted or mentioned in the collection

Explore the Collection