South Australian Museum

Adelaide's South Australian Museum	South Australian Museum	South Australian Museum - free admission	South Australian Museum
Dinosaur model greeting visitors to the South Australian Museum	Dinosaur skeleton in a dramatic pose over the coat check of the South Australian Museum	The front vestibule contains whale and dolphin skeletons	Southern Bottlenose Whale (Hyperoodon planifrons)
Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis)	Pygmy Sperm Whale (Kogia breviceps)	Humpback Whale skull (Megaptera novaeangliae)	Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
Gray's Beaked Whale (Mesoplodon grayi)	Lower jaw of a 16m Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus)	Large male Sperm Whale (16m) with a much smaller female	Sperm Whale skeleton (Physeter macrocephalus)
Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery	Tribal Boundaries in Aboriginal Australia	Aboriginal symbols	The museum started collecting aboriginal artefacts in the 1880s
19th C. shield (mulla bakka) of eucalypt bark	Book with drawings of the Kuri Dance and the Palti Dance	Various hunting and war clubs from the Adelaide region, late 19th C.	Boomerang (wadna) found in the Hindmarsh Valley in 1938
Wokali Shield, over 150 years old	1890s Shield with Snake Dreaming and 1913 shield with Fish Dreaming designs	Clay pipe, ca 1920	Hunting boomerangs, late 19th-early 20th C.
Stone axes, early 20th C.	Quartzite knives, ca 1890-1910	Barbed spears for hunting	Cockatoo feather ornament, early 20th C.
Boomerangs and charms used in ceremonies to disperse flood waters	Water basket made from bark in the Melville and Bathurst Islands, ca 1905	The Lizard and the Crocodile by Dawidi, Arnhem Land, 1960s	Fire making kit, north Queensland, mid-20th C.
Mungada, Medicine Man - Groote Eylandt, mid-20th C.	Artefacts with sinew repairs, late 19th-early 20th C.	Dreaming Ancestor Dog, South Australia ca 1900	Various Aboriginal axes on top compared with those of other countries including New Caledonia, England, Denmark, NZ and Turkey
Painting "Mulga seed; Wardipiri near papunya" by Peggy Nampiginpa	Emu hunting scene, by Jack Miritiji, mid 20th C.	Aboriginal spears, late 19th-early 20th C.	Barbed spears, primarily for ceremonial purposes
A woman, Malantji and her husband, Makau Kau, who came from the seas to the east, Arnhem Land, mid 20th C.	Various throwing, hunting and fighting clubs, 19th-early 20th C.	Dreaming story of men hunting with their dog and spearing a goanna, by Mick Kubarrku, early 1970s Arnhem Land	Hunting tools, late 19th-early 20th C.
Detail of a carved boomerang from the Flinders Ranges of South Australia	Carved aboriginal shields from the 1800s	Shields with wood carvings, 1800s	Bark canoes used on rivers in southeastern Australia, late 19th C.
Barbed spears and a ceremonial club ca 1900	Dugong hunt by Burur, Mornington Island, mid 20th C.	The Yuendumu School Doors painted in 1983 in the Northern Territory, 250 km NW of Alice Springs	Yuendumu School Doors, 9 of the original 30 are here in the South Australian Museum
Yuendumu School Doors - Milky Way Dreaming	Yuendumu School Doors - Honey Ant and Mulga Work Dreaming	Yuendumu School Doors - Two Kangaroos Dreaming	Yuendumu School Doors - Small Yam and Big Yam Dreaming
Yuendumu School Doors - Woman and Snake Dreaming	Yuendumu School Doors - Two Men Dreaming	Yuendumu School Doors - Bush Turkey and Emu Dreaming	Yuendumu School Doors - Wedge-tailed Eagle Dreaming
Yuendumu School Doors - Crow, Possum and Dawn Dreaming	Pearly shell ornament, 1930s	Looking down on the bark canoes on the ground floor	Feathered ceremonial object, an incarnation of the Bird Ancestor
Figures from Purrukaparli Dreaming	Figure from Purrukaparli Dreaming	Figures from Purrukaparli Dreaming	Tindale Map of Aboriginal Tribal Boundaries published in 1974
Bark Bucket, Bathurst & Melville Islands	Bark Bucket, Bathurst & Melville Islands	Bark Bucket, Bathurst & Melville Islands	Bark Bucket, Bathurst & Melville Islands
Bark Bucket, Bathurst & Melville Islands	Bark Bucket, Bathurst & Melville Islands	Bark Bucket, Bathurst & Melville Islands	Chalk drawings with facial designs, Melville Island, mid-20th C.
Chalk drawings with face and body designs, Melville Island, mid-20th C.	Female figure	Bark paintings from Arnhem Land	Silver Barramundi ca 1980, and Namarrkon, Lightning Spirit, late 1970s
Bark painting, Namarrkon, Lightning Spirit, Arnhem Land	Aboriginal bark painting detail - Silver Barramundi, Arnhem Land	Aboriginal bark paintings from Arnhem Land	Cormorant and Bonefish Dreaming, Arnhem Land, mid-1960s
Banumbu, guardian of the Morning Star with spirits of the deceased, and right, the Water Spirit, Arnhem Land	Macassan Prahu and Dugout Canoes - People from the Celebes Islands sailed to Arnhem Land annually for sea cucumber	Bark paintings of frill-necked lizard, echidna, snakes and Brolga Dreaming, 1908	A selection of Australian baskets
A selection of Australian baskets	Basket in the form of an airplane	Pearl shell ornament engraved with tracks, Sunday Island	Bags and containers, early 1900s
Painted carved figure	Aboriginal shields	Aboriginal shields	Log coffins, Arnhem Land
Log coffins, Arnhem Land	Bark painting with animals and birds	Aboriginal painting	Aboriginal painting - Relatedness
Aboriginal painting - Relatedness	Pacific Cultures Gallery, upstairs in the old Victorian wing of the museum	Ancestor memorial house posts, Asmat, Papua New Guinea	Detail of an ancestral memorial house post, Asmat, Papua New Guinea
South Pacific artefacts from Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guina	Woodcarving, PNG	Shields (vayola), Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea	Ancestor memorial house post, Asmat, Papua New Guinea
Detail of ancestor memorial house posts, Asma, Papua New Guinea	South Pacific artefacts, Papua New Guinea	Sacred boards (hohao), eastern Papuan Gulf, PNG	Sacred boards (hohao), late 19th C., eastern Papuan Gulf, PNG
House board and other carvings, eastern Papuan Gulf	Bark plaques, eastern Papuan Gulf	Trophy skulls of enemies, Okearavi, Purari Delta, eastern Papuan Gulf	Detail of a trophy skull with carving, eastern Papuan Gulf
Mask (eharo), eastern Papuan Gulf	Male figure (hohao), eastern Papuan Gulf	Mask (eharo) with boar's tusk, late 19th C., Papua New Guinea	Detail of under-arm shield with a standing double figure, Papua New Guinea
Under-arm shield, probably Kerema, Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea	Bark emblem, Purari Delta, Gulf Province, PNG	Male figure for Moguru ceremony, Western Province, PNG	Hand drum, Papua - Indonesia
AdelaideSep13 246.jpg	South Pacific mask - Vanuatu	Artefacts from Vanuatu	Mask, Efaté or Malefula, Vanuatu
Model of a New Guinea dwelling, Rogeia Island, Milne Bay Province, 1936	Model of a New Guinea dwelling, Rogeia Island, Milne Bay Province, 1936	Model of a New Guinea dwelling, Rogeia Island, Milne Bay Province, 1936	Selection of clubs from New Caledonia
Jade-bladed ceremonial axe, New Caledonia	Wooden mask, New Caledonia	Victorian display case with artefacts from Fiji	Fijian war clubs
La-Sisi, a malagan canoe - New Ireland, PNG, 1995	Detail of the La-Sisi canoe, a modern commission of an early 1900s specimen	La-Sisi canoes were carved for memorial ceremonies commemorating the recently deceased	La-Sisi Canoe, South Australian Museum
La Sisi Canoe, New Ireland, Papua New Guina	Male figure for controlling weather (marumarua), New Ireland, PNG	Male figure for controlling weather (marumarua), New Ireland, PNG	Ornately decorated wooden masks, New Ireland
Wooden carving of a wild boar, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea	Wooden masks, New Ireland, PNG	Wooden masks, New Ireland, PNG	Wooden masks, New Ireland, PNG
Wooden figures, New Ireland, PNG	Wooden figure, New Ireland, PNG	Painted figure, New Ireland, PNG	Painted figure, New Ireland, PNG
Malanggan figure of a woman, New Ireland	Wooden figures, New Ireland, PNG	Wood carving of a whale, New Ireland, PNG	Crested Mask, New Ireland
Crested Mask, New Ireland	Skull showing grooves in forehead, incised in childhood, Lehir Island, New Ireland, PNG	Stone club heads, Morobe, Papua New Guinea	Figure of a man - portion of wooden style at home entrance, Namatana Island, Fiji
The Fiji Times, June 30, 1919	Susu mask, East New Britain, PNG	Display case with artefacts from New Britain, Papua New Guinea	Victory dance of the Baining breaking the severed heads of the enemy
Decorated shield, New Britain, PNG	Distorted skull, Ablingi, West New Britain, PNG	Distorted skull, Ablingi, West New Britain, PNG	Mask (semese), Papuan Gulf, PNG
Headhunters trophy bound with cane, Solomon Islands	Details of barbed spears, Solomon Islands	Kula trading canoe, Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, PNG	Mask used as house ornament, Lower Sepik River, PNG
Memorial Effigy molded on the skull of the deceased, Sepik River, PNG	On the ground floor of the old wing is the Natural History taxidermy collection	Animals of Africa	Primates of Africa
Barbary Sheep	Wolf	Mouflon (Ovis aries)	A sad, almost comical looking lion
Tiger	Indian Elephant	Axis Deer	Elk
And with the Tapir, my time tapered off as closing time arrived...