IDNO

LS.108991.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Arunta. Side view of head of a man."

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.310.ACH1: "Side view of man."

Half-length profile portrait of an Arunda (Arunta) man, bare-chested with cicatrisation marks across the upper chest. The man has a full moustache and beard, and wears a chilara (hair band) with small dreadlocks at the crown. The background is indistinguishable. [WV 23/1/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia; ?Macdonnell Ranges; ?Macumba River; ?Alice Springs

Cultural Affliation

Aranda [also known as Arunta; Arrarnta; Arrarnte; Arunda]

Named Person

Photographer

Baldwin Spencer, Walter; or Gillen, Francis James

Collector / Expedition

Baldwin Spencer, Walter [Spencer and Gillen 'Arunta' Fieldwork, Summer 1896 - 1897]

Date

?November 1896 - ?February 1897

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Expedition: In Baldwin Spencer, W., and F.J. Gillen, 1899. The Native Tribes of Central Australia, (MacMillan and Co. Ltd., London), the preface, p. viii, states: "During the summer of 1896-97, the natives gathered together at Alice Springs to perform an important series of ceremonies, constituting what is called the Engwura, and this, which occupied more than three months, we witnessed together." [WV 23/1/2009]

Expedition: Note in Baldwin Spencer, W. and F. J. Gillen, 1927. The Arunta. A Study of a Stone Age People (Macmillan, London), Vol. I , on p. vii states that Baldwin Spencer and Gillen spent four consecutive months with the Aranda (Arunta) people in 1896. The results of this stay were first published in 1899, in the "Native Tribes of Central Australia." [WV 23/1/2009]

Photographer: Note in Baldwin Spencer, W. and F. J. Gillen, 1927, p. xiii states all photos were taken by the authors. [WV 23/1/2009]

Cultural Group: Baldwin Spencer and Gillen describe the Aranda [Arunta] nation as including the Arunta, Ilpirra, Iliaura, Unmatjera, and Kaitish. (Baldwin Spencer, W. and F. J. Gillen, 1904. The northern tribes of central Australia. (London), p. 75). [WV 10/2/2009]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Aboriginal Visual Histories Project, Monash University. [Wonu Veys 23/1/2009]