Catherine H. Berndt born in Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

, was an Australian anthropologist. She published valuable monographs on Aboriginal Australia, including Changing ceremonies in Northern Australia (1950).

With her husband Ronald Berndt

Ronald Berndt

Ronald Murray Berndt was an Australian anthropologist. With his wife Catherine Berndt, they worked in the Northern Territory, in the Daly River....

, they collected lots of art works in Australia as in Asia. The collection is conserved in the Berndt Museum of Anthropology

Berndt Museum of Anthropology

The Berndt Museum of Anthropology was founded in 1976 by Ronald Berndt and Catherine Berndt. The museum was established to house the extensive collections accumulated by Ronald and Catherine Berndt during their lifelong careers as anthropologists. Although initially called the Anthropology Research...

, founded by themselves in 1976 (University of Western Australia

University of Western Australia

The University of Western Australia was established by an Act of the Western Australian Parliament in February 1911, and began teaching students for the first time in 1913. It is the oldest university in the state of Western Australia and the only university in the state to be a member of the...

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As a couple, they published several monographs including The Aboriginal Australians: The First Pioneers and Arnhem Land: Its history and its people.