IDNO

LS.108997.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Warramunga.
Front view of head and chest of a Medicine man with a kupitja in his nose. A kupitja is 3 1/2 long, cylindrical, bound with fur string with a thick coating of grease and red ochre. It is at once both the emblem of his profession and very closely associated with his powers as a Medicine man. The old Medicine Man who gave it him tells him it was made in the Alcheringa and is full of magic power.
North. T.C.A. p. 484."

Half-length frontal portrait of a Waramanga (Warramunga) man, bare-chested with cicatrisation on chest, shoulders and upper arms. The man has a beard and moustache. The background is indistinguishable. [WV 27/1/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia

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

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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]

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]

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]

Publication: Image published in Baldwin Spencer, W. and F. J. Gillen, 1904. The Northern Tribes of Central Australia. (London), p. 484. [JD 19/8/2009]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Aboriginal Visual Histories Project, Monash University. [JD 20/8/2009]