| 词条 | Walter Smith (bushman) |
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|name = Walter Smith |image = |imagesize = |smallimage = |alt = |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1898|7|2}} |birth_place = Arltunga, Northern Territory, Australia |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1990|6|14|1898|7|2}} |death_place = Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia |birthname = Walter Smith |nationality = Australian |partner = |occupation = Bushman |website = }}Walter Smith also known as Walter Purula (Perrurle) or Wati Yuritja (2 July 1898 – 14 June 1990) was a legendary Australian bushman from the Arltunga region in the Northern Territory of Australia. He was also a miner, dogger and perhaps the most widely travelled cameleer in Australia who could speak more than 30 languages.[1] Early lifeSmith was born at the Arltunga goldfield and was the eldest of eleven children to William Smith, a goldminer of Welsh descent and an Aboriginal woman Topsy White. Although he had no formal education, his father taught him English and his mother and grandmother taught him eastern Arrernte and Arabana languages. At the age of 12, he accompanied Arrernte people on their last large ceremoniall gathering in the Simpson Desert. They travelled with camels to a large clay-pan, where traditional hunting and gathering took place. After severe drought in 1914-15 drought and the 1919 influenza ceremonial gatherings took place on the desert-fringe cattle stations or at the edges of outback towns instead. After the death of his father in 1914, Smith's family moved to Alice Springs with the help of the Hayes family of Undoolya station and police sergeant Robert Stott. Smith married Millie Carnegie on 11 February 1929 at the Oodnadatta police station. While he was away on a prospecting journey to the western deserts, government officials removed Millie to Nepabunna Mission in the Flinders Ranges. Smith never saw her again.[2] Working lifeSmith began working with Afghan cameleer Charlie Sadadeen, meeting the train at the railhead at Oodnadatta in South Australia, and taking a load to Alice Springs with a camel team as a teenager. He then worked as a prospector, gem fossicker, dogger (dingo trapper) and miner at Tennant Creek during the 1930s.[1] He took out several mining leases in the Harts Range.[3][4][5] Later lifeSmith married Mabel Williams in Alice Springs on 26 January 1961. He was the last of the Red Centre’s cameleers, working into the 1970s. After living with his sister for many years, he then moved to the Old Timers’ Home in 1983. He died on 14 June 1990 and is buried in the Alice Springs Cemetery.[2][6] References1. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Kimber|first1=R.G.|title=Man from Arltunga : Walter Smith, Australian bushman|date=1986|publisher=Hesperian Press|location=Victoria Park, W.A.|isbn=085905084X}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Walter}}2. ^1 {{cite web|author=R. G. Kimber|title=Smith, Walter (1898–1990)|work=Australian Dictionary of Biography|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/smith-walter-15740/text26928|date=2012|accessdate=8 August 2016}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48059576 |title=Advertising |newspaper=Northern Standard |issue=14 |location=Northern Territory, Australia |date=7 April 1933 |accessdate=3 January 2017 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49979386 |title=Advertising |newspaper=Northern Standard |volume=1, |issue=30 |location=Northern Territory, Australia |date=20 December 1946 |accessdate=3 January 2017 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49494248 |title=Advertising |newspaper=Northern Standard |issue=42 |location=Northern Territory, Australia |date=1 June 1934 |accessdate=3 January 2017 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} 6. ^{{cite web|last1=Kimber|first1=R. G.|title=Eulogy for Walter Smith 20/6/1990|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/33795881?q&versionId=41571697|website=Trove|date=20 June 1990|accessdate=3 January 2017|via=National Library of Australia}} 4 : 1898 births|1990 deaths|Australian miners|Australian prospectors |
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