IDNO

T.67717.MFL

Description

Five older non-native men, including possibly Bishop Wentworth or O'Loughlin? wearing a clerical collar, possibly outside a school? at Bathurst or Melville Island. [JD 29/8/2012]

The man with the collar is Bishop O'Loughlin, and is talking to Father Cosgrove, who baptised Bede in 1952, on the right.
Bishop O'Loughlin established the Tiwi Art Centre at Bathurst Island. [Information from Bede Tungutalum, Tiwi artist, and Diana Wood Conroy, University of Wollongong, JD 10/30/2015]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Northern Territory; Bathurst Island

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Bishop O'Loughlin; Father Cosgrove

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

15 February 1963

Collection Name

Macfarlane Collection

Source

Macfarlane, Alan

Format

Transparency

Primary Documentation

Other Information

T.67481 to T.68999 and T.74937 to T.74998 were found in the box now numbered C494/.
T.67713 to T.67726 were found in the plastic slide sheet now numbered C494/13/.