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Olive Pink Collection. Photograph taken by Olive Pink of her aboriginal guide, Central Australia, 1934
No full textBlack and white photograph taken by Olive Muriel Pink of her aboriginal guide, near Alice Springs, Central Australia, 1934, with inscription on the back by Olive Pink, 'My native (guide, factotum and friend!) a full-blooded Arunda on our way to Mt Gillen (in distance) He is carrying my waterbag and kit'. Photographs sent with a letter to her friend Joan Walker in Hobart, Tasmania.
From the Olive Pink Collection P6/2
Olive Pink Collection. Photograph of Olive Pink in Red Cross uniform, April 1916
No full textSepia photograph of Olive Muriel Pink in Red Cross uniform, April 1916, on a Kodak postcard with inscriptions on the back by Olive Pink 'with love from Olive, Darlinghurst, V.A.D.[?], April 1916, Soldiers' Convalescent Home, "Rose Hall", Forbes Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney'.
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Olive Pink Collection. Photograph of Olive Pink with camel called 'Quart-Pot', Central Australia, 1934
No full textBlack and white photograph of Olive Muriel Pink standing next to a camel, 'Quart-Pot', in Central Australia, 1934, with inscription on the back by Olive Pink, '"Quart-pot" and Olivia - (ready for anything!)' Photographs sent with a letter to her friend Joan Walker in Hobart, Tasmania
Olive Pink Collection. Photograph by Olive Pink of Finke River, Central Australia, 1934
No full textBlack and white photograph by Olive Pink of the Finke River in Central Australia, 1934, with inscription on the back by Olive Pink, 'The Finke River ("bed" - it was sand not water - when I saw it!) Mt ? in distance. (At Horseshoe Bend) C.Aus.' Photographs sent with a letter to her friend Joan Walker in Hobart, Tasmania
Olive Pink Collection. Photograph of Olive Pink with her guide Jim and two camels, Central Australia, 1934
No full textBlack and white photograph of Olive Muriel Pink standing next to two camels, 'Quart-Pot'and 'Mangy', with her aboriginal guide Jim at a Central Australian waterhole, 1934, with inscription on the back by Olive Pink, 'To dear Mrs Walker - with love from Olive, Jim, (guide), "Quart-Pot, Olive and "Mangy"!!! (in order, from R to L!!) at a C. Aus. water-hole.' Photographs sent with a letter to her friend Joan Walker in Hobart, Tasmania
Olive Pink Collection. Photograph of Olive Pink on a camel, Central Australia, 1934
No full textBlack and white photograph of Olive Muriel Pink sitting on a camel, 'Larry', in Central Australia, 1934, with inscription on the back by Olive Pink 'Larry says " If I cannot be in the centre of the picture I'm not going to show my face!" Darkie says "Oh bother you! Well just my ears then!".'
Photographs sent with a letter to her friend Joan Walker in Hobart, Tasmania
Olive Pink
No full textPhotographs from Library & Archives NT PH0091/0058 and PH0091/0062Miss Olive Pink was a controversial figure in Central Australia. As an anthropologist she conducted research on the Warlpiri and Arrernte people. She lost her place at university and her financial sponsors when she refused to publish certain secret rituals of the Warlpiri people. She also proposed a large land reserve set aside for the Warlpiri people. This proposal upset the mining and cattle stations community who had initially helped her research. Though the proposal was set aside it did not stop Miss Pink in her campaign for indigenous rights. For example, Miss Pink tried to set up a sanctuary where missionaries, government and police would be excluded.
After many years working in the desert, Miss Pink moved back to Alice Springs and lived in a decommissioned army hut on Gregory Terrace. She made an income from selling the fruit and flowers she grew and working as a part-time cleaner at the court house. In 1955 Miss Pink now 71 years old was evicted from her home because of redevelopment. She was homeless and had been dismissed from her cleaning job. For a couple of years she lived in a tent on a quarter acre block on the outskirts of Alice Springs. In 1956 she was granted an occupation license. Miss Pink then lobbied to have the land turned into an arid flora reserve. This land is now known as the Olive Pink Botanic Garden.
Source: Northern Territory dictionary of biography. Darwin : Charles Darwin University Press, 2008.ArtistPlannerAnthropologistNaturalistAboriginal rights activis
Olive Pink Collection. Photograph taken by Olive Pink of aboriginal children playing in a waterhole, Central Australia, 1934
No full textBlack and white photograph by Olive Pink of a group of aboriginal children swimming in a waterhole in Central Australia, 1934, with inscription on the back by Olive Pink, 'Native children playing in water-hole - Central Aus.' Photographs sent with a letter to her friend Joan Walker in Hobart, Tasmania
Olive Pink Collection. Letter from Olive Pink to Joan Walker written during WWII (no date c.1942-45)
No full textLetter written to Joan Walker in Hobart from Olive Pink in Northern Territory some time between 1942 and 1945. Donated to the University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Materials Collection (Walker family papers) by Mr. B.B.(Jim) Walker in June 2007. [Transcribed by Gillian Ward July 2007]. The letter had photographs of Olive Pink enclosed. These appear as separate items on ePrints.
Photograph of Joan Walker (lent by Mr. B.B. Walker).
Joan Walker was the niece of sisters Sarah and Mary Walker, both Quakers - daughters of George Washington Walker and Sarah Benson Walker.Sarah Walker ran the Girls High School with Miss Poppy Clarke where Olive was a student.
Olive enjoyed her time at school and kept in touch with her headmistresses after leaving. She was influenced by the Quaker philosophy she had encountered through Sarah Walker for the rest of her life. She learnt painting from Sarah Walker's sister, Mary who had studied at the Slade School in London
Letter from Violet Bartlett and Olive Pink to Ursula Walker, Sydney, 12 May, 1922
No full textLetter from Violet Bartlett and Olive Pink to Ursula Walker, Sydney, 12 May, 1922. Letter concerning artwork sent by Ursula Walker to Sands for greeting cards with notes by Olive Pink
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