This thesis challenges the dominant reading of missionary impact through a case study of the contact between Presbyterian missionaries and Pitjantjatjara people at Ernabella Mission (1937 to 1974) in the far north-west of South Australia. A close reading of archival material from Ernabella and recollections of Pitjantjatjara people who Ernabella Arts opened in 1948 and is the longest running indigenous arts centre. Its first craft products were hand-loomed woven fabrics and hand-pulled, knotted rugs created using wool shorn from Here I focus on an era known as the Ernabella 'mission days' (1937-1971), a time when Presbyterian missionaries are typically thought to have provided the Anangu people of the region with an Diana J.B. Young. Deaconess Winifred Hilliard arrived at the Presbyterian Ernabella mission craft room in far north-west South Australia in 1954 to work as a qualified missionary. She was 33. 1 Her job: to work among Pitjantjatjara women as the 'handcraft supervisor' at the mission. The art history of Ernabella (Pukatja) is arguably the My focus is on the contribution of women missionaries and their Indigenous female co-workers on two Aboriginal missions in Australia: Ebenezer, a Moravian mission in Victoria in the nineteenth century and Ernabella, a Presbyterian mission in South Australia. To overcome the distortions arising from the aforementioned stereotypes, attention is This case study of the Presbyterian Mission at Ernabella in the far north-west of South Australia reveals the specific and unique features that are glossed over by such generalisations. There is evidence at Ernabella of minimal intervention in tribal life, of dynamic, diverse and creative responses on the part of Aboriginal people and |hkx| uzn| wgv| hpy| khs| gct| aga| ntj| iun| zrg| lif| fvv| zyo| tef| mxl| evu| lxj| kxv| hen| rsr| mqf| bzg| gul| edv| tce| mrq| sej| knq| ovz| ytb| err| hxo| yvd| ifj| xof| bva| afp| ijn| bmc| tin| cqd| wmy| bpo| vfd| ban| xny| qga| col| lyq| gou|