Cooperative camps were well organised. This photograph of the columbite mining camp at Kulikuli shows the type of houses constructed by marrngu at the time.
Columbite Mining Camp at Kulikuli
Citation
‘Cleaning Columbite at Kulikuli’, 1953, Photo by Norman Tindale, South Australian Museum, AA 338-43-355.
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