Record ID:
36572111 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
LC number:
  • n 2001050778
Heading:
Corporate body details:
  • Aboriginal Australians
Birth:
  • 18720928
  • Raukkan (S.A.)
Death:
  • 19670207
  • Tailem Bend (S.A.)
Associated with:
  • Australia
Used for:
  • Yungaipon, 1872-1967
  • Uniapon, David, 1872-1967
  • Narranyeri, 1872-1967
Notes:
  • Unaipon, David. Legendary tales of the Australian Aborigines, 2001: t.p. (David Unaipon) introd. p. xii (b. Sept. 28, 1872, Point McLeay mission, S. Aust.) Aust. CIP (hdg.: Unaipon, David, 1872-1967)
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography (online) 20 July 2022: (David Unaipon (1872-1967), preacher, author and inventor, was born on 28 September 1872 at the Point McLeay Mission, South Australia, fourth of nine children of James Ngunaitponi, evangelist, and his wife Nymbulda, both Yaraldi speakers from the lower Murray River region. He worked there and in Adelaide, and read widely. By 1909 Unaipon had developed and patented a modified handpiece for shearing, and from then till 1944 applied for patents on nine other inventions. In 1912 Unaipon led a deputation urging government control of Point McLeay Mission; next year he gave evidence to the royal commission into Aboriginal issues and became a subscription collector for the Aborigines' Friends' Association. He published versions of Aboriginal myths, also newspaper articles and poetry, and compiled the sources used by David Ramsay Smith (unacknowledged). He supported education for Aboriginals. He died at Tailem Bend on 7 February 1967.) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/unaipon-david-8898
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)921673
  • abv03078541
  • 000001580366
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX43160
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng DLC VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc