Rebecca Richards on historical photos through many eyes

09/18/19 • 18 min

In the 1930s Anthropologist Charles Mountford documented Adnyamathanha people with a series of now iconic photographs held by the South Australian Museum. Eighty years on an Adnyamathanha researcher has taken the photos back to her Adnyamathanha community to uncover personal and complex stories of family, culture and country.

Rebecca Richards is an Adnyamathanha Barngarla woman, an early career researcher at the South Australian museum and a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide.

Rebecca Richards is an Adnyamathanha Barngarla woman, an early career researcher at the South Australian museum and a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide.

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