This series can be divided into two groups. The first and larger group, AA 159/1/1 to AA 159/1/8, contains field notes from trips undertaken on behalf of both the South Australian Department of Mines and Geosurveys Pty Ltd between 1953 to 1963. These field notebooks are closely related in subject matter, with geology and ethnology being the principal matters discussed. More specifically, they include written notes on geological sites, sketches of Australian Aboriginal artefacts and colour sketches of rock art with written descriptions.

The field notebooks cover consecutive periods, and closely follow on from each other. Some field books contain a contents page on the inside back or front cover and some contain an index, both of which usually refer to place names. Items AA 159/1/6 and AA 159/1/7 are exercise books used for field notes and the remainder AA 159/1/1 to AA 159/1/5, and AA 159/1/9 to AA 159/1/10 are stenographer style notebooks.

The second group of notebooks, AA 159/1/9 and AA 159/1/10, date from 1972 to 1980, during the period Johnson was an Honorary Research Worker and Associate at the South Australian Museum. There is some overlap in dates between the two notebooks in this group. These field notebooks refer extensively to meteorites (Johnson is known to have obtained at least 3 meteorites for the South Australian Museum in this time) and phosphates. They are less rigorously organised than the early field notebooks.

Untitled field notebook

This item is a ‘Phonic’ shorthand notebook containing notes and illustrations made by Johnson while conducting field work for the South Australian Department of Mines in 1953.

The contents of the notebook mostly consist of separate entries under various headings. Almost all the entries are dated and initialled by Johnson. Most of the entries in this notebook are tallies and descriptions of stone artefacts found at archaelogical sites. Such entries usually feature highly detailed illustrations of the stone artefacts Johnson found, and often also contain statistical tables showing the number of each type of artefact found at a site and their constituent materials. The entries and their page numbers are listed as follows:

• Page 1 - ‘Considerations regarding the complex phosphates and their decomposition products from the pegmatites of the Egeliek and Old Boolcoomatta’.
• Page 11 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from Section 18, Hd of Kelly, Co. of Buxton, EP, SA’. 23 January 1953.
• Page 12 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from Sec. 3, Hd of Wilcherrie, Co. of Buxton, EP, SA’. 13 February 1953.
• Page 13 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from rocks 4 miles ENE of Uno Station Homestead, via Iron Knob, SA’. 17 February 1953.
• Page 18 - ‘Fabricating tools from Aboriginal jasper quarry and workshop, NE end of Lake Gilles, 4 miles ENE of Gandhi’s Dam, Uno Station, via Iron Knob EP, SA’. 23 February 1953.
• Page 21 - ‘Implements from NE end of Lake Gilles on Uno Station, via Iron Knob, EP, SA’. 24 February 1953.
• Page 22 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from large campsite on creek ½ mile SE from top of Harris Bluff, Uno Station via Iron Knob, EP, SA’. 26 February 1953.
• Page 29 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from Cortlinye Rockhole, on Bascombe Rocks, Sec. 27, Hd of Cortlinye, Co. of Buxton EP, SA’. 4 March 1953.
• Page 31 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from waterhole 8 miles in a straight line due East of Corunna Homestead, via Iron Knob, SA’. 6 April 1953.
• Page 45 - ‘Sketch of Aboriginal paintings in rock shelters in gorge at Wa Wee Rockholes, near Mt John, NW South Australia, of the Pitchantjara [Pitjantjatjara] tribal area’. Undated.
• Page 51 - ‘Specimens collected by self and geological staff of SA Dept of Mines, NW Geological Survey Expedition’. Undated.
• Page 59 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from Policemans Well, about 3 miles WSW of Mt John, West of Oodnadatta, NW of South Australia. Pitchantjara [Pitjantjatjara] tribe’. 10 June 1953.
• Page 63 - ‘Aboriginal artefact from porcellanite capped mesa, South of Chambers Bluff, NW of South Australia’. 11 June 1953.
• Page 64 - ‘Aboriginal artefact from rock hole 2 miles West of Mt Carmeena, Everard Range, NW of South Australia’. 11 June 1953.
• Page 65 - Notes discussing site of lightning strike in Everard Range, South Australia. 9 June 1953.
• Page 67 - ‘Aboriginal implements from Lockhart-Jack’s Rockhole, 2 miles West of Mt Carmeena, Everard Range, NW of SA. Pitchantjara [Pitjantjatjara] tribal area’. 13 June 1953.
• Page 69 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from Windmill Well, Granite Downs Station, 150 miles West of Oodnadatta, NW of SA. Pitchantjara [Pitjantjatjara] tribe’. 14 June 1953.
• Page 72 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from 3 miles SE of Tieyon homestead on Mt Erwin track via Oodnadatta. NW of South Australia’. 16 June 1953.
• Page 74 - ‘Aboriginal carvings and artefacts from soak 6 miles SW of Tieyon homestead via Oodnadatta. NW of South Australia’. 17 June 1953 – 22 June 1953.
• Page 79 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from soak about 14 miles North of Tieyon homestead via Oodnadatta, NW of South Australia’. 22 June 1953.
• Page 81 - ‘Aboriginal rock carvings and artefacts from rock holes and soaks about Hells Gates, Granite Downs, NW of SA’. 27 June 1953.
• Page 117 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from headwaters of Ammaroodinna Creek, about 4 miles WNW of Chambers Bluff, NW of South Australia’. 5 August 1953.
• Page 122 - ‘Aboriginal paintings on water stained overhanging granite rock face, 12 miles South of Victory Downs Station via Finke, SW of NT’. 6 August 1953.
• Page 123 - ‘Aboriginal carvings on face of granite boulder, 5 feet long, at soak 15 miles NW of Moorilyanna, NW of SA’. 6 August 1953. This section also contains a description and a sketch of a circle of standing stones erected near Moorilyanna on page 124.
• Page 125 - ‘Rough axe blanks from Aboriginal quarry in mid-Sturtian basalts, 3 miles South of Wantapella Well, Granite Downs Station, NW of SA’. 8 August 1953.
• Page 127 - ‘Flaked nodules of mauve chalcedony from Warrataddy Hill, 12 miles East of Mt Erwin, NW of SA’. 8 August 1953.
• Page 129 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from dune middens at Andagurdda Soak, 24 miles ESE of Kenmore Park homestead, and halfway between that place and Echo Hill, NW of SA’. 15 August 1953.

This notebook also contains a contents page on the inside rear cover of locations. The places described in the notebook appear to be entirely within South Australia (SA) and Nothern Territory (NT). Localities listed include Andagurra Soak (SA), Aroona Water (SA), Bascombe Rocks (SA), Carmeena Rockhole (SA), Cathedral Rock (SA), Chambers Bluff (SA), Copley (SA), Cortlinye Rockholes (SA), Corunna Homestead (SA), Everard Range (SA), Gandhi’s Dam (SA), Granite Downs (SA), Harris Bluff (SA), Hells Gate (SA), Lake Gilles (SA), Moorilyanna (SA), Mount Carmeena (SA), Mount Chandler (SA), Mount Irwin (SA), Mount John (SA), Policeman Well (SA), Tieyon (SA), Uno (SA), Uno Station (SA), Victory Downs (NT), Wa Wee (SA), Wantapella (SA), Warrataddy Hill (SA), and Windmill Well (SA). Most of these sites are in the Iron Knob, Oodnadatta or Finke regions.

Pages 151-155 contain various names and addresses, and a handwritten table of the Murundian, Mudukian, Pirrian, and Tartangan chronological periods first described by Norman Tindale (see AA 338).

Names mentioned in this item include Charles Fenner (see SAMA 917), R Coats, Ralf Kraus, George Cook, AG Campbell, and D Moore.

Some of the artefacts Johnson found during his field work were donated to the South Australian Museum (SAM). SAM specimen numbers recorded in this notebook include A44947, A45593, A45602, A45605, A45600, A45596, A45590, and A45610.

Tindale Tribes: Pitjandjara.

'Personal Field Book: Ethnographical and Geological'

This item is a shorthand notebook containing personal notes recorded while Johnson was conducting field work for the South Australian Department of Mines between 1953 and 1955. A handwritten title on the front cover reads ‘Personal field book, ethnological and geological’. Handwriting on the inside front cover reads ‘Notebook, JE Johnson, NW Geological Survey, August 21st 1953’. The contents of the notebook consist of entries under separate headings. Almost all of the entries are dated and initialled by Johnson. Most of the entries consist of geological and archaeological notes and illustrations recorded by Johnson at various sites, and they often feature highly detailed illustrations of artefacts found and statistical tables of the number of artefacts found at particular sites and their constituent materials. A number of the artefacts described have been annotated with South Australian Museum (SAM) specimen numbers. Some of the entries also describe and depict rock paintings and carvings encountered by Johnson during his field work. The entries and their page numbers are listed as follows:

• Page 1 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from rockhole 3 miles SE of Mt Howe, on Mt Cavanagh Station, NW of SA’. 21 August 1953.
• Page 4 - ‘Artefacts of translucent white chalcedony from Aboriginal quarry site in duri-crust 2 miles SW of Frog [Bank] in Marryat Creek, Sundown Station, Mt Cavanagh, NW of SA’. 22 August 1953.
• Page 6 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from Henbury meteorite craters’. 22 August 1953.
• Page 8 - ‘Rough chopping tool of white translucent chalcedony, from quarry in that stone, 12 miles East of Sentinel Hill, Kenmore Park Station, NW of SA’. Undated.
• Page 9 - ‘Artefacts from Wardulka Rockhole, a dune midden site about 12 miles NNW of Ernabella Mission Station, NW of SA’. 7 September 1953.
• Page 17 - ‘Aboriginal painting from cave at Erlywanjawanja [Aliwanyiwanyinya] Rockhole, West of Ernabella Mission Station, NW of SA’. 26 September 1953.
• Page 22 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from dune midden 1 mile North of Razor Hill and 12 miles North of Ernabella Mission, Musgrave Range, NSW of SA’. 2 October 1953.
• Page 28 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from quarry site, on translucent white chalcedony at rock soakage 6 miles East of Lake Wilson, Mann Range, NW of SA’. 5 October 1953.
• Page 32 - ‘Aboriginal paintings in cave, Cathedral Rock, 2 miles ENE of Old Boolcoomata Station, via Olary, NE of SA’. Undated.
• Page 34 - Notes on visit to Mount Victoria Mine, Olary, SA. 10 October 1953.
• Page 36 - ‘Notes on [illegible] davidite find, 2 miles NW of Crocker Well Uranium Mine, NE of SA’. Undated.
• Page 39 - ‘Notes on Ethiudna Mine, 3 miles West of Plumbago Station, via Olary, SA’. 16 October 1953.
• Page 42 - ‘Aboriginal paintings in rock shelter 5 miles NNW of Plumbago Station, via Olary, NE of SA’. Undated.
• Page 43 - ‘Notes on ‘basaltic horneblende’ from Crocker Well area’. Undated.
• Page 44 - ‘Occurrence of radioactive ores in pegmatite, 1 mile North of Mount Victoria outstation, Plumbago, via Olary, SA’. 23 October 1953.
• Page 46 - ‘Structures and mineralogy of the calc-silicate ‘skarn’ rocks of the Plumbago-Ethiudna Mine area’. Undated.
• Page 52 - ‘Notes on davidite occurrences found by HE Campano’. Undated.
• Page 56 - ‘Aboriginal stone axe (specimen no 1811) found at Granite Hill , 3 miles NE of Tombstone Dam, Plumbago Station, via Olary, NE of SA’. 28 November 1953.
• Page 60 - ‘Notes on a pegmatite 1 mile SW of dam on road from Billeroo Hut to Mt Victoria Hut. Undated.
• Page 62 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts (planes or high backed adzes) of massive buff quartzite from campsite at Tombstone Dam, Plumbago Station, via Olary, NE of SA’. 12 December 1953.
• Page 64 - ‘Aboriginal artefact from near Ethiudna Hill, Plumbago Station, via Olary, NE of SA’. Undated.
• Page 66 - ‘Aboriginal paintings from cave 1 mile East of Mt Victoria, Plumbago Station, via Olary, SA’. 14 December 1953.
• Page 66B - ‘Aboriginal paintings from rock shelter 1 ½ miles North of mine camp, Crocker Well, via Olary, SA’. 10 February 1954.
• Page 70 - ‘The Mount Howden cobalt mine’. Undated.
• Page 73 - ‘Geologic observations on uranium occurrences on Talbots Gum Creek, 2 mile ENE of Windamerta Hill, Plumbago Station, Olary, SA’. Undated.
• Page 75 - ‘Mineralogy of Plumbago’. Undated.
• Page 78 - ‘Notes on an Aboriginal campsite at Spring Hill, 12 miles NW of Glenarchy Station, NE of SA’. Undated.
• Page 96 - ‘Aboriginal paintings in rock shelter on West foot of Mount Victoria, Plumbago Station, via Olary, SA’. 22 May 1954.
• Page 98 - ‘Aboriginal implements from vicinity of Bimbowrie Station, via Olary, SA’. Undated.
• Page 102 - ‘Aboriginal paintings in rock shelter half a mile West of Ameroo Hill, Outalpa Station’. 4 June 1954.
• Page 106 - ‘Aboriginal paintings in rock shelter in granite ½ mile SE of Antro Woolshed, Bimbowrie Station, via Olary’. Undated.
• Page 110 - ‘New artefacts from Plumbago Station’. Undated.
• Page 112 - ‘Notes on some ordovician graptalites from near Bendigo, Victoria, presented by Mr John Allen of the Bendigo City Council Engineering Department’. Undated.
• Page 136 - ‘Aboriginal artefacts from alongside mail road, 22 miles South of Mooloowurtina Station, north Flinders Range’. 28 August 1955.
• Page 140 - ‘Aboriginal pebble choppers from site at Terrapinna Springs, Mooloowurtina Station’. Undated.
• Page 140B - ‘Aboriginal carvings from East side of North end of McTaggart Range, Balcanoona Station, Flinders Range’. Undated.
• Page 144 - ‘Artefacts from Bolla Bollana Waterhole, Arkaroola Creek, Arkaroola Station, Flinders Range, South Australia’. 26 September 1955.
• Page 146 - ‘Artefacts from campsite at Bararrana Gorge, Arkaroola Creek, Arkaroola Station, Flinders Range’. 9 October 1955.
• Page 150 - ‘Artefacts from Terrapinna Rockhole, Mooloowurtina Station, Flinders Range, SA’. 15 October 1955.
• Page 152 - ‘Aboriginal camp site near mine and ½ mile SE of Parabarana Hill, Mooloowurtina Station’. 21 October 1955.

The inside rear cover of the notebook also contains an index of locations visited by Johnson during his field work between August, 1953, and October, 1955. The sites described in the notebook occur mostly within South Australia (SA) but also include some locations within the Nothern Territory (NT) and Victoria. Localities listed on the page of contents include Mount Cavanagh Station (SA), Henbury (NT), Wardulka Rockhole (SA), Erlywanjawanja [Aliwanyiwanyinya] Rockhole (SA), Razor Hill (SA), Lake Wilson (SA), Cathedral Rock (SA), Plumbago Station (SA), Tombstone Dam (SA), Mount Victoria (SA), Crocker Well (SA), Spring Hill (SA), Ameroo Hill (SA), Antro Woolshed (SA), Moolawatana Station (SA), Terrapinna Rockhole (SA), McTaggart Range (SA), Arkaroola Creek (SA) and Parabarana Hill (SA).

Locations discussed in the notebook but not included in the index include Arkaroola (SA), Balcanoona (SA), Barrarrana Gorge (SA), Barrier Ranges (NSW), Bendigo (Vic), Billeroo Hut (SA), Bimba Copper Mine (SA), Bimbowrie (SA), Bolla Bollana Spring (SA), Cockburn (SA), Ernabella (SA), Ethiudna Mine (SA), Everard Ranges (SA), Granite Downs (SA), Kalabity (SA), Kenmore Park (SA), Lake Frome (SA), Lookout Hill (SA), Mann Ranges (SA), Marryat Creek (SA), Mount Howe (SA), Mount Victor (SA), Musgrave Ranges (SA), Musgrave Ranges (SA), Olary (SA), Old Boolcoomata (SA), Outalpa (SA), Pine Creek (SA), Sentinel Hill (NT), Sundown Outstation (SA), Talbot Creek (SA), Tieyon (SA), Windamerta Hill (SA).

Individuals mentioned in this notebook include HE Campano, AR Campbell, and John Allen.

Some of the artefacts Johnson found during his field work were donated to the SAM. SAM specimen numbers recorded in this notebook include A45592, A45606, A45607, A45608, A45032, and A43951.

Tindale Tribes: Antakirinja.

Untitled field notebook

THIS ITEM CONTAINS RESTRICTED MATERIAL
This item is a shorthand notebook containing personal notes recorded by Johnson while he was conducting field work in 1956. Handwritten on the outside of the rear cover of the notebook is ‘JE Johnson, c/o Geosurveys’. The contents of the notebook consist of numerous entries under separate headings. Almost all of the entries are dated and initialled by Johnson. Most of the entries consist of geological and archaeological notes and illustrations recorded by Johnson at various sites, and they often feature highly detailed illustrations of artefacts found and statistical tables of the number of artefacts found at particular sites and their constituent materials. Some of the entries also describe and depict rock paintings and carvings encountered by Johnson during his field work. The entries and their page numbers are listed as follows:

• Page 1 - ‘Note on Aboriginal campsite at Lightning Rocks, 10 miles NW of Fort Welcome Spring, Cavanagh Range, WA’. 21 April 1956.
• Page 13 - ‘Notes on Aboriginal paintings, peckings and artefacts at Fort Welcome, Cavanagh Range, WA’. 30 April 1956.
• Page 39 - ‘Geologic notes on volcanic flow rocks south of Blackstone Range, WA’. 3 May 1956.
• Page 45 - ‘Note on artefacts from an ancient Aboriginal campsite, situated on the North side of a gneiss hill, 2 miles WNW of Mt Crombie, which is 24 miles south of Mt Caroline, in the southern Musgrave Range, SA’. 20 May 1956.
• Page 65 - ‘Note on archaeological site situated on a dune near granite hills, 6 miles South of Mt Harriet, South of Musgrave Range, SA’. 20 May 1956.
• Page 71 - ‘Notes on Aboriginal sacred place at Naryilkinna Rockhole. 19 May 1956.
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• Page 75 - ‘Notes on Aboriginal artefacts from Giles Tank’. 30 May 1956.
• Page 81 - ‘Split pebble chopper from South side of Bell Rock, WA, between Blackstone Range, WA, and Thompkinson Range, SA’. 10 June 1956.
• Page 83 - ‘Aboriginal paintings from rock face at mouth of creek with soakages, 16 miles West of South Western Mining camp’. Undated.
• Page 85 - ‘Notes on artefacts from previous locality 16 miles West of SW Mining camp in Blackstone Range, WA’. 8 July 1956.
• Page 97 - ‘Notes on Mudukian sites and artefacts from the North Hinckley laterites, WA’. 7 August 1956.
• Page 117 - ‘Further notes on the North Hinckley laterites’. 14 September 1955.
• Page 119 - ‘Note on Aboriginal artefacts from Bundey Pass, 3 miles NE of Mount Davies, Tomkinson Range’. Undated.
• Page 131 - ‘Notes on possible climate in Central Australia during Muduk times 2-300 years before present’. October 1956.
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• Page 133 - ‘An archaelogical site, 2 miles SE of Sam’s Pass which is 4 miles West of Southwestern Mining camp, Blackstone Range, WA’. 2 November 1956.
• Page 159 - ‘Note on an Aboriginal painting …near a rockhole at Barnard Rocks, South of Blackstone Range, WA’. 3 November 1956.
• Page 160 - ‘Bi-faced hand chopper of Kartan cultural type, found isolated 4 miles North of Mount Holt, 25 miles North of Blackstone Range, WA’. 5 November 1956.
• Page 161 - ‘Notes on carvings and artefacts from an Aboriginal archaeological site in the Murray Range, WA’. 28 November 1956.
• Page 187 - ‘Note on an axe of fine grained green diabase from near Mount Moore, South of Bell Rock, WA’. 30 November 1956.
• Page 189 - ‘Notes on karungaras’. Undated.
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The notebook also contains a contents page on the inside front cover listing locations visited by Johnson. The places described in the notebook appear to be mostly within Western Australia (WA) and South Australia (SA). Localities listed on the contents page include Lightning Rock (WA), Fort Welcome Spring (WA), Blackstone Range (WA), Skirmish Hill (WA), Mount Crombie (SA), Mount Harriet (SA), Nargilka Ceremonial site (SA), Giles Tank (SA), Hinckley Range (WA), Bundey Pass (SA), Sams Pass (WA), Barnard Rocks (WA), Mount Holt (WA), Murray Range (WA), and Mount Moore (WA).

Locations mentioned in the notebook but not listed on the contents page include Amy Giles Rocks (WA), Arkaroola (SA), Bell Rock (WA), Cavenagh Range (WA), Chambers Bluff (SA), Ernabella (SA), Everard Ranges (SA), Hogarth Wells (WA), Mann Ranges (SA), Mount Caroline (SA), Mount Davies (SA), Mulga Park (NT), Musgrave Ranges (SA), Naryilkinna Rockhole (SA), North Hinckley Range (WA), Oodnadatta (SA), Tomkinson Ranges (WA), Uno (SA), Warburton Range (WA), Weinna Hill (SA), Wingellina (WA).

The last three pages are commence from the last page inwards and appear to show map references and rough notes relating to Geological survey dating from 11 October to 3 November 1957.

Names mentioned in the notebook include Sam Warne (See SAMA 966), Frank Hann, JE Solomon, C Hazlett, H Domeyer, JE Carr, JS Connor, D Pegum, Ernest Giles, John Forrest, Norman Tindale (see AA 338), Ben Greenwood, Ian McLeod, Ernabella Mick, One Leg, and R Leake.

Some of the artefacts Johnson found during his field work were donated to the South Australian Museum (SAM). SAM specimen numbers recorded in this notebook include A49443, A49442, and A50251.

Tindale Tribes: Pitjandjara.

Untitled field notebook

THIS ITEM CONTAINS RESTRICTED MATERIAL
This item is a shorthand notebook containing personal notes recorded by Johnson while he was conducting field work in 1956 and 1957. Handwritten on the first page of the notebook is ‘Johnson, JE’. The contents of the notebook consist of numerous entries under separate headings. Almost all of the entries are dated and initialled by Johnson. Most of the entries consist of geological and archaeological notes and illustrations recorded by Johnson at various sites, and they often feature highly detailed illustrations of artefacts found and statistical tables of the number of artefacts found at particular sites and their constituent materials. Some of the entries also describe and depict rock paintings, carvings and fossil finds encountered by Johnson during his field work. The entries and their page numbers are listed as follows:

• Page 1 - ‘Notes on an Aboriginal campsite 4 miles NE of Mount Gosse, WA’. 15 December 1956.
• Page 25 - Itinerary and notes from a trip from Adelaide to Walparuta with Dennis Walter. 31 December 1956 - 7 February 1957.
• Page 33 - ‘Geology of volcanic sequence of Skirmish Hill’. May 1957.
• Page 35 - ‘Notes on archaeological site at Tollu camp, 9 miles South of Blackstone camp, WA’. 22 June 1957.
• Page 53 - ‘Notes on archaeological site 6 miles West of Skirmish Hill’. 28 June 1957.
• Page 67 - ‘Archaeological site 10 miles North of Skirmish Hill, WA’. 30 June 1957.
• Page 83 - ‘Archaeological site 12 miles South-West of Tollu, WA’. 1 July 1957.
• Page 89 - ‘Notes on Aboriginal burial on east bank of Rivery Murray, 1½ miles South of outskirts of Tailem Bend, SA’. 6 July 1957.
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• Page 93 - ‘Note on a Kartan archaeological site on banks of Sundown Creek about 5 miles WNW along track from Beltana Station via Beltana, SA’. 11 July 1957.
• Page 109 - ‘On Lower Cambrian Medusoids from Ediacara Mine (Spriggs Discovery)’. 14 July 1957.
• Page 127 - ‘Archaelogical sites at Wingellina laterites, North of the Hinckley Range, WA’. 7 October 1957. [This item continues in notebook AA 159/1/5]

The last page of the notebook contains rough notes written in pencil about the geology of the Great Lakes in North America.

This notebook contains a contents page on the inside front cover of locations. The places described in the notebook appear to be mostly within Western Australia (WA), New South Wales (NSW) and South Australia (SA). Localities listed include Mount Gosse (WA), Tollu (WA), Skirmish Hill (WA), Tailem Bend (SA), Beltana (SA), Ediacara Mines (SA), and Wingellina (WA).

Other locations mentioned in the notebook, but not listed on the contents page, include Billeroo (SA), Bimbowrie (SA), Blackstone (WA), Broken Hill (NSW), Cathedral Rock (SA), Crocker Well (SA), Danglemah (NSW), Ernabella (SA), Fort Welcome (WA), Glenarchy (WA), Hinckley Range (WA), Lookout Hill (SA), Mount Crombie (SA), Mount Davies (SA), Mount Hope (NSW), Mummawarrawarra Hill (WA), Murray River (SA), Olary (SA), Outalpa Springs (SA), Plumbago (SA), Sundown Creek (SA), Tamworth (NSW), Thackaringa (NSW), The Giants Den (NSW), Tietz Dam (SA), Walparuta (SA), Warburton Range (SA), Woman In White (SA).

Names mentioned in the notebook include Dennis Walter, Bill O'Neill, Ian McLeod, DR Walter, and RC Sprigg.

Untitled field book

This item is a shorthand notebook containing notes written by Johnson while he was conducting field work in October and November, 1957. On the inside of the front cover is a brief handwritten table of contents, and handwritten on the first page of the notebook is ‘Johnson, JE’.

The single entry in the notebook is a continuation of notes taken by Johnson in the previous notebook (AA 159/1/5) at various archaeological sites around Wingellina, North of the Hinckley Range in Western Australia. The entry consists of notes describing stone artefacts found at the sites, and also features statistical tables and highly detailed illustrations. Only the first 52 pages of the notebook are used, with all other pages remaining blank.

Field notebook

This item is a ‘Twinplex Duplicate Book’ containing alternate blank and lined pages, with each lined page and the subsequent blank page for carbon copies sharing the same page number. Most of the blank pages have been left blank, however several have been used for sketches and illustrations. The notebook contains personal notes taken by Johnson while conducting fieldwork between 1958 and 1960. The notes consist of separate entries, mostly descriptions of archaeological sites with highly detailed illustrations of stone implements, and statistical tables showing the numbers of stone implements and their constituent materials at each site. Hand-drawn maps are provided for some sites. Some entries also contain descriptions and illustrations of rock art Johnson encountered at various sites during his field work. Most of the entries in the notebook are initialled, dated and titled. The separate entries are listed by page number as follows:

• Page 1 - ‘Archaeological site in Hinckley Range, WA’. 20 July 1958.
• Page 5 - ‘Archaeological site at Wannawarkunda Rockhole.’ 5 October 1958.
• Page 6 - ‘Archaeological site 6 miles SE of Wannawarkunda Rockhole’. 5 January 1959.
• Page 9 - ‘Notes on sporadic artifact finds from site Wingellina ‘B’. 29 October 1958.
• Page 14 - ‘Notes on Aboriginal campsite on hill 8 miles south of Mount Gosse, WA’. 31 November 1958.
• Page 15 - ‘The Wingellina Meteorite’. 2 December 1958.
• Page 16 - ‘Notes on a collection of Australites made at or near Wingellina between July 12 and Dec 14, 1958’.
• Page 24 - ‘Note on a group of Aboriginal placed stones near Horseshoe Bend’. 02 May 1959.
• Page 25 - ‘Notes on Aboriginal paintings at Cave Hill on the NW of SA Aboriginal Reserve’. 31 May 1959.
• Page 31 - ‘Geologic notes on reconnaissance from Kalgoorlie to Wingellina’. July 1959.
• Page 42 - ‘University of WA, Nedlands - Copy of Palynological Report No. 47 by BE Balme’. 5 August 1959.
• Page 43 - ‘Reconnaissance in George Gill Range, NT, from Henbury to Landers Manganese Prospect and Kadjunta Creek, NT, August 13-18 1959’. 3 September 1959.
• Page 46 - ‘Note on Aboriginal manufactuary near Mount Eba, SA’. 7 September 1959.
• Page 48 - ‘Notes on Centralian Aborigine pigment sources’. This entry includes small paper packets containing samples of four different ochres.
• Page 50 - ‘Notes on some specimens of rocks associated with the Pitjantjatjara Geanticline’.
• Page 52 - ‘Notes on a recon to the Rawlinson and Petermann Ranges, Oct 29 to Nov 2 1959’. 8 November 1959.
• Page 55 - ‘Notes on an Aboriginal campsite 33 miles SE of Giles Meteorological Station, WA’. 9 November 1959.
• Page 57 - ‘Notes on some tjungani from Cave Hill’. 24 November 1959.
• Page 59 - ‘Notes on sporadic artifact finds about Wingellina’. Undated.
• Page 61 - ‘Notes on artifacts from Horseshoe Bend Station, via Finke, NT’. 14 February 1960.
• Page 63 - ‘Notes on some artifacts found on south side of George Gill Range, along banks of Petermann Creek, 50 miles west of Tempe Downs homestead, NT’. 14 February 1960.
• Page 66 - ‘List of artifacts from Aboriginal campsite in dunes on banks of Hall’s Creek, Ophara Blacks Station (1949), SW of Broken Hill in County of Yankawinna, NSW, and about on road halfway between Cockburn, SA, and Egebek feldspar quarry, NSW’. 23 March 1960.
• Page 68 - ‘Observations on a Kartan archaeological site at Bopeechee Railway Siding, 44 miles west of Marree, SA’. 21 June 1960.
• Page 73 - ‘Note on an early Mudukian campsite in the Tomkinson Range, SA, Kunujulda’. 17 July 1960.
• Page 78 - ‘Notes on Mudukian site at Nuridjara Soak in the Tomkinson Range, SA’. 17 July 1960.
• Page 79 - ‘Note on Aboriginal campsite on Titu Creek, far NW of SA’. 17 July 1960.
• Page 82 - ‘On the prehistory of Lake Wilson in the Mann Range, SA’. 21 July 1960.
• Page 87 - ‘Notes on archaeological site Lake Wilson No. 1’. 21 July 1960.
• Page 89 - ‘Notes on an archaeological site No. 2 at Lake Wilson’. 24 July 1960.
• Page 93 - ‘Notes on archaeological site no. 3 at Lake Wilson, Mann Range, far NW of SA’. 23 July 1960.
• Page 96 - ‘Notes on archaeological site no. 4, Lake Wilson, SA’. 24 July 1960.

On the inside back cover there appear to be brief geological survey notes referring to shafts, with map references.

Johnson has used the book's printed alphabetical index page at the beginning of the notebook to list locations he has written about. The localities listed in the index are in South Australia (SA), Northern Territory (NT), New South Wales (NSW) and Western Australia (WA). The locations listed on the index page are Andado (NT), Blackhill Creek (NT), Bopeechee Railway Station (SA), Cave Hill (SA), Eawa Ochre Quarry (NT), Mount Gosse (WA), George Gill Range (NT), Hinckley Range (WA), Hollis Creek (NSW), Horseshoe Bend (NT), Kunujulda Campsite (SA), Lake Wilson (SA), Mount Eba (SA), Nuridjara Soak (SA), Petermann Ranges (NT & WA), Pottoyu Hills (NT), Skirmish Hill (WA), Tempe Downs (NT), Tollu (WA), Warburton Range (SA & WA) and Wingellina (WA).

A number of locations that are not listed on the contents page are mentioned in the notebook. These include Bagot Springs (NT), Cavenagh Range (WA), Cosmo Newbery (WA), Crown Point (NT), Cunninghams Gorge (NT), Dean Range (NT), Erlywanjawanja [Aliwanyiwanyinya] Rockhole (SA), Ernabella (SA), Finke (NT), Finniss Springs (SA), Giles Meteorological Station (WA), Giles Tank (SA), Gosse Pile (SA), Hermit Hill (SA), Hocking Range (WA), Kathleen Range (WA), Kings Creek (NT), Laverton (WA), Lightning Rock (WA), Linden (WA), MacDougall Bluff (WA), Malcolms Bore (NT), Michael Hills (SA), Mount Davies (SA), Mount Dutton (SA), Mount Fanny (WA), Mount Herbert (WA), Mount Kingston (NT), Mount Margaret (WA), Mount Squires (WA), Mount Weir (WA), Mulga Park (NT), Mungadidja Soak (SA), Murin Murin (WA), Musgrave Ranges (SA), Petermann Creek (NT), Polly Springs (NT), Putaputa (SA), Rawlinson Range (WA), Schwerin Mural Crescent (WA), Strangways Springs (SA), Tarcoola (SA), Teizi Soak (SA), Titu Creek (SA), Townsend Ridges (WA), Wannawarkunda Rockhole (WA), William Creek (SA), Winburn Rocks (WA).

Names mentioned in the notebook include SR Mitchell, George Baker, Tom Dodd, and Peter Njaningu.

Some of the artefacts Johnson found during his field work were donated to the South Australian Museum (SAM). SAM specimen numbers recorded in this notebook include A53398 and A53396.

Tindale Tribes: Pitjandjara.

Untitled field notebook

This item is a ‘Tudor Duplicate’ notebook containing alternating blank and lined pages, with each lined page sharing the same page number as the subsequent blank page. Only the first 43 pages of the notebook have been used, and the rest of the pages remain blank. Between pages 20 and 32 the lined pages have been removed from the notebook. The book contains notes recorded by Johnson when he conducted field work in 1960 and 1961. The notes consist of separate entries, mostly descriptions of archaeological sites with highly detailed illustrations of stone implements, often also featuring statistical tables showing the numbers of stone implements and their constituent materials at each site. Hand-drawn maps are provided for some sites. Most of the entries in the notebook are initialled, dated and titled. The separate entries are listed by page number as follows:

• Page 1 - ‘Notes on an archaeological site No. 5 at Lake Wilson, Mann Ranges, far NW of SA’. 27 July 1960.
• Page 5 - ‘A general analysis of 164 artifacts from five campsites at Lake Wilson’. 27 July 1960.
• Page 8 - ‘Notes on an archaeological site at Kudjewara Soak in the Mann Ranges, far NW of SA’. 31 July 1960.
• Page 12 - ‘Notes on a Kartan archaeological site near Chichinutinganna Soak, Mann Range, SA’. 31 July 1960.
• Page 15 - ‘Notes on a Tartangan archaeological site in the Mann Ranges, SA’. 2 August 1960.
• Page 20 - ‘Notes on an extraordinary concentration of Australites on Lake Wilson in the far NW of SA, in a geomorphic setting which gives a probable age of 15,000 BP for the Australites time of fall’. 20 September 1960.
• Page 33 - ‘Notes on an Aboriginal campsite at Pulkajulka’. 10 October 1960.
• Page 38 - ‘Notes on an Aboriginal campsite at Succinea Claypan, Mann Ranges, South Australia’. 26 January 1961.
• Page 41 - ‘Notes on an Aboriginal campsite at Kunbina, Mann Range, SA’. 3 February 1961.

Johnson has used the book's printed alphabetical index page to list localities he visited during the course of his field work. The localities listed in the index are in the Mann Ranges which span South Australia (SA) and Northern Territory (NT). Localities include Chichinutinganna Soak [Tjitjintjingana] (SA), Kudgewara Soak (SA), Kunbina (SA), Lake Wilson (SA), Mungadidja Soak (SA), Nungoorna (SA), Pulkajulka (SA), Succinea Claypan (SA). A number of locations that are not listed on the contents page are mentioned in the notebook. These include Hector Pass (SA), Mount Davies (SA), Petermann Ranges (NT/WA), and the Tomkinson Ranges (SA).

Names mentioned in the notebook include Peter Ngaminu, Tommy Dodd, and Dr George Baker.

Some of the artefacts Johnson found during his field work were donated to the South Australian Museum (SAM). SAM specimen numbers recorded in this notebook include A53386, A53865 and A53862.

Tindale Tribes: Pitjandjara.

Extract from field notebook

This item is made up of 11 numbered pages taken from a notebook containing alternating lined and blank pages. The pages contain handwritten notes made by Johnson in relation to Australian Aboriginal habitation sites he visited between August 1962 and January 1963. The notes also contain detailed illustrations and statistical tables of stone artefacts found at each site. The notes are organised under separate headings, which are as follows:

• Page 1 - 'Aboriginal site on Mern-merna Station, near Hawker, Flinders Ra., Discovered August 6th 1962'.
• Page 4 - 'Bunyeroo Gorge, artifacts found Sept. 30 1962'.
• Page 5 - 'Site at Aroona Spring, SW of Blinman, Flinders Range, found Dec. 17, 1962'.
• Page 6 - 'Aboriginal campsite on Mathewsons Creek, Flinders Range... Found Jan 18th 1963'.

Australian locations mentioned in these notes include Hawker (SA), Mernmerna (SA), Bunyeroo Gorge (SA), Aroona Spring (SA), and Upalinna Station (SA).

'Meteorites on Front Land.'

This item is a ‘Glamis Reporter’s Note Book’ with ‘meteorites on front land’ handwritten on the front cover. The contents of this notebook are organised differently to those of the previously listed notebooks. The note are rougher, the notebook has been used from both ends, and there are no indexes or ordered page number system. It appears to come from the period when Johnson was retired from paid work. The subjects discussed in this notebook are meteorites, minerals and phosphates, and Reaphook Hill, South Australia (SA).

Pages 1-30 contain Johnson's notes on Reaphook Hill, South Australia (SA), in black ink. He describes the chronology of events from 1966-1977 (with the heaviest concentration of activity in 1972) of a geological survey, and includes illustrations of the geological characteristics of the area.

Pages 32-3 contain notes on the Black Point (SA) meteorite.

Pages 36-55 discusses the Wirrabarra [Wirrabara] (SA) meteorite, which fell on 13 February 1980. Accounts of the meteorite event by various eyewitnesses are recorded. The eyewitness accounts are numbered B1- B14, with four further unnumbered accounts noted.

Seven pages in the centre of the notebook contain notes written about a trip to Paratoo Station (SA), Olary (SA), Arkaroola (SA), Mount Chambers (SA), Wilkawillina Gorge (SA), Oraparinna (SA), and Peterborough (SA) between 5 December 1980 and 19 December 1980.

'Syringocnema Pycinoidocyanthus' is handwritten on the outside back cover of the notebook and page numbering commences from the last page inwards. The inside back cover contains a list of minerals under the heading 'George Frost', dated January to April 1973. Pages numbered 2 to 48 contain notes made in relation to meteorites, australites, phosphates, and minerals.

The central section contains blank pages, and the notebook is badly watermarked.

A number of locations are mentioned in the notebook, often as sources of mineral samples. They include Angaston (SA), Boolka (SA), Broken Hill (NSW), Burra (SA), Cockburn (SA), Collingwood (Vic), Comet Vale (WA), Dawesley (SA), Dome Rock (SA), Fairview (SA), Iron Monarch Mine (SA), Kapunda (SA), Kuitpo (SA), McLaren Vale (SA), Middleback Range (SA), Moculta (SA), Moline (NT), Moraby (Qld), Mount Billy Creek (SA), Musgrave Ranges (SA), Myponga (SA), Noarlunga (SA), Orroroo (SA), Pangora (SA), Parachilna (SA), Poonana (SA), Port Clinton (SA), Robertstown (SA), Rowland Flat (SA), Wilkawillina Gorge (SA), Willunga (SA).

A number of names are also mentioned in the notebook, mostly of participants in a geological survey, eyewitnesses to a meteorite event, and authors of cited works. They include Russ Abbey, FA Bannister, H Bennett, HL Brown, IF Bull, Albert Chapman, Robin Eden, Angela Ferdinandy, Mike Fitzgerald, WT Gill, WK Harris, JC Harrison, MH Hey, Rod Hill, KP Hillary, John Hoffman, RL Jack, Margaret Jeffery, RK Johns, Chris Johnston, Anthony Kampf, Michael Larrett, JD Lockwood, Trevor Longmier, John McAndrew, Dan McCall, Robert McDonald, Rob McEvoy, Peter Middleton, Andrew Mugge, JG Oliver, Gwenda Quinn, JA Reed, SW Roe, Ron Rooney, Ralph Seguit, Jerry Smith, Mary Smith, LJ Spencer, Brian Stapleton, PB Tavender, and Dr Ian Thredgold.

Untitled field notebook

On pp. 1-4, Johnson describes a trip in July 1978 to the Gawler Ranges area from Kimba to Streaky Bay in South Australia, with samples collected and stations visited.

On pp. 5-13, Johnson lists geological formations, in various locations in the Flinders Ranges and around Arkaroola (SA).

The last page has an incomplete rough itinerary, dated 30 January 1980.

All other pages are blank.