IDNO

LS.108999.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Anula.
Front view of head and bust of man."

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.320.ACH1: "Arunta man."

Half-length frontal portrait of an Aranda (Arunta) man, bare-chested with cicatrisation on chest and upper abdomen. The man has a short beard and moustache and is wearing a series of four armbands on his right arm. A building verandah is just visible in the background on the left. [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]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Aboriginal Visual Histories Project, Monash University. [Wonu Veys 25/2/2009]