Strehlow justified his retention of these objects by the personal expense he had laid out, and by the fact, he insisted, that they had been formally handed into his care by ' surrender ceremonies '.

Mickey Gurra ( Tjentermana ), his earliest informant and last of the ingkata or ceremonial chiefs of the bandicoot totem centre known as Ilbalintja, confided in Strehlow in May 1933 that neither he nor any of the other old men had sons or grandsons responsible enough to be trusted with the secrets of their sacred objects ( tjurunga ) ( many of which were being sold for food and tobacco as the native culture broke down ), together with the accompanying chants and ceremonies.

This work had been assembled in 1934 but Strehlow delayed publication until all his informants were dead.

Strehlow felt a personal responsibility for this material, as the man exclusively entrusted by a generation of elders with myths and songs, their secret knowledge and ceremonial artefacts, and held a grievance for what he considered to be the shabby treatment he had received during his life by the establishment.

In his final return to the area, he was surprised to discover that his ' twin ', Gustav Malbunka, who had once saved his life, and who had not only renounced his culture but become an evangelical preacher, was capable of singing tjilpa ( totemic quoll ) verses that once formed a key part of rituals that Strehlow thought were extinct.

Familiar with white men in the Centre who had raped aboriginal girls of that age, Strehlow did not think this crime fitted with Aboriginal behaviour.

Four days before the appointed hanging, Strehlow, with the Catholic chaplain, interviewed Stuart at Yatala prison.

In November 1896 Spencer was again at Alice Springs beginning the work with Gillen which resulted in the Native Tribes of Central Australia, published in 1899 and partly opposed by Carl Strehlow and Moritz von Leonhardi.

Strehlow was born, a month premature, at Hermannsburg, the native placename being Ntaria.

The Strehlow Research Centre at Alice Springs was established for the preservation and public display of these works.

In the subsequent review process, Strehlow testified several times on what he saw as the incompatibility between the English of the confession and the dialect vernacular Stuart used.

In 1891, the missionaries left, but the settlement was continued by lay workers until, in 1894, Pastor Carl Strehlow arrived.

Strehlow became a noted anthropologist and was initiated into Arrernte customs.

Pastor Strehlow learnt the local Western Arrernte language and is credited with translating the Bible into the language.

As Strehlow was of German descent, the Western Arrernte written form followed his German pronunciation — which is why the letter / sound relationships make the language easy to read and pronounce for English speakers / readers.

* T. G. H. Strehlow

Theodor George Henry Strehlow ( 6 June 1908 – 3 October 1978 ) was an anthropologist who studied the Arrernte ( Aranda, Arunta ) Australian Aborigines in Central Australia.

Strehlow's father was Carl Strehlow, the Lutheran pastor and Superintendent, since 1896, of the Hermannsburg Mission, southwest of Alice Springs on the Finke River.

When Strehlow was 14 years of age his domineering and charismatic father contracted dropsy and the story of the transport of his dying father to a station where medical help was available was recalled in Strehlow's novel Journey to Horseshoe Bend.

The tragic death of his father marked Strehlow for life.

Several, such as Rauwiraka, confided to Strehlow their secret knowledge, and even their names, trusting him to conserve the details of all their sacred lore and rites.

In the following two years, covering more than 7, 000 grueling miles of desert to witness and record aboriginal ways, Strehlow witnessed and recorded some 166 sacred ceremonies dealing with totemic acts, most of which are no longer practiced.

Strehlow died of a heart attack in 1978, just before the opening of an exhibition of his collection of artefacts, while conversing with Justice Kirby and his friend and colleague Ronald Berndt on the extinction of the bilby ( the key animal in the bandicoot ritual ) by introduced rabbits, a metaphor for what was happening to the aborigines and their culture with the spread of white civilisation.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

He scrubbed absent-mindedly at the pans and reflected on how things had turned out.

For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.

The arrangement turned out to be excellent.

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

A time before the white lightning and the bumming had turned him inside out.

As things turned out, however, we have not profited greatly from the lesson: instead of persistently following a national program of our own we have often been satisfied to be against whatever Soviet policy seemed to be at the moment.

But every time I suggested this to her, Mrs. Wright turned it down and demanded that I go out and punish Mr. Wright.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.

We lived for a while in a movie melodrama with a German cook and her son who turned out to be Nazis.

Though it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned out to be frauds and phonies, it did irreparable damage to the ego of the editor and many another intelligent, well-informed American.

As it has turned out, however, the excessive enthusiasm in the first instance and the loss of hope in the second were both wrong responses.

In their search for what turned out to be the right breakfast china but the wrong table silver, they opened every cupboard door in the kitchen and pantry.

He looked out through windowpanes turned a faint violet by sun and weather, looked out at King's Bridge toward Westchester.

That evening turned out to be hell like all the others.

As it turned out, Jessica took matters into her own hands.

We blushed and were flustered, and it turned out to be the fleetest brush of lips upon cheek.

It turned out to be a life of Martin Luther, of all things!!

Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.

As it turned out, a very hot region occurred on the plug.

However, he turned out to be a complete failure in his new position.

could piece, as it were, the jumbled mass together into an organized whole and then recognize it as a man or a triangle or whatever it turned out to be.

For it had turned out, by a further paradox of Cubism, that the means to an illusion of depth and plasticity had now become widely divergent from the means of representation or imaging.