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White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha communityTracy SpencerVolume Three Appendices: Creative Life WritingSection C: Contact ZoneImage from Herbert M. Hale and Norman B. Tindale "Observations on Aborigines of the Flinders Ranges, andRecords of Rock Carvings and Paintings." Records of the South Australian Museum 1 (1925): 45-60.In 1925, he is heavier, and hairier, with his arms crossed as he faces Norman Tindale’scamera, grinning at the man who has learnt to call him ‘Wanjulda’, as he takes note of MtSerle Bob’s stories of the ‘early days’. 27 Bob saw them all come – Smiler Greenwood torestart Mt Serle station yet again; the Snells stubbornly holding on across the creek atAngepena Station, and the newcomers, Ron and Jackie Whyte with their partner NormanColes, running their rams along the boundary on Burr Well Station. Bob had seen the past:some said Bob could see the future, and watches still.Mt Serle, 1926After dinnertime, Jack lets the deeper wheel ruts wander off to the west, while he turns thedonkeys to follow lighter tracks that amble north towards the large hill and beside a creekbed. Ahead and sitting on the banks of the creek, two men and two women hail them to a halt,waving arms and a blackened quartpot. Rebecca can see they are boiling up white cottonmaterial in tubs on fires.‘Nangga!’20