E C H Lousada about to speak H Leslie Periman Collection Northern Territory Library		On the Roper River Wynne Evans Collection Northern Territory Library		Gardening team H Leslie Periman Collection Northern Territory Library		Woodcarting H Leslie Periman Collection Northern Territory Library		Trenchdigging Wynne Evans Collection Northern Territory Library

These photographs show Edward Charles Hall Lousada engaged in activities with the indigenous people of the Northern Territory during his years as an Anglican missionary around 1920.

Of course, how much good resulted from such missionary activity is a moot point. Before the white man came, aborigines lived in abundance and leisure - so Bill Gammage informs us (ref 57 especially p226), like aristocrats rather than the serfs which colonists seemed determined to make them. Their ingenious management of the landscape was integral to a lifestyle lost, and their grief was only to a small extent mitigated by the mercies rendered by the missionaries.