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This paper by Professor Sir Henry Barraclough, KBE VD MME MIEAust, was originally broadcast as a National Talk over the National Network of the Australian Broadcasting Commission on 22 Feb 1938, and is published with the consent of the Commission.
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"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260