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Mornington Island mission, 1940s
Title:
Mornington Island mission, 1940s
NFSA ID
2360
Year
1948
Courtesy
Pat Sichlau
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
This is an excerpt from colour home movies made between 1944 and 1948 by Reverend James McCarthy, the Superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission on Mornington Island.
Mornington Island, a remote community in the Gulf of Carpentaria, has been occupied by its traditional owners, the Lardil people, for thousands of years.
In this excerpt from the home movies we see the medical dispensary and Flying Doctor Service, school students performing calisthenics, people fishing and swimming and a plane dropping supplies by parachute.
Read more about Mornington Island including personal recollections from someone who grew up there.
Filmmaker
Rev. JB McCarthy
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.