ABSTRACT
This chapter has its foundations in a research project related to T.G.H. Strehlow’s memoir Journey to Horseshoe Bend. The project compiled a range of related archival records and media resources into a digital database repository with hyperlinks to specific and significant points in the text. T.G.H. Strehlow’s Journey to Horseshoe Bend was published by Angus and Robertson in 1969. The main story retells the journey of his father Carl Strehlow who in 1922 fell ill with dropsy and had to proceed by horse and buggy down the dry riverbed of the Finke River in Central Australia to seek medical aid. As a Lutheran missionary of note, Carl Strehlow’s illness and subsequent death was a turning point for the mission and the community of Hermannsburg/Ntaria. There are elements of the text that are of particular relevance to the contemporary Aboriginal community based at Hermannsburg/Ntaria in Central Australia. The chapter takes up issues pertinent to those people and presents a case for representing and reimagining Journey to Horseshoe Bend in a curated database narrative.
