IDNO

LS.109001.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Kaitish.
Side view of head of a man, showing the curly nature of the hair.
North. T.C.A. fig. 25."

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.322.ACH1: "Tjingilli man."

Head and shoulders profile portrait of a Tjingili (Tjingilli)? or Kaititja (Kaitish)? man, bare-chested with cicatrisation on chest and shoulders. The man has a beard and moustache. [WV 27/1/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia

Cultural Affliation

Kaititja [historically Kaitish]; Tjingili [historically Tjingilli]

Named Person

Photographer

Baldwin Spencer, Walter; or Gillen, Francis James

Collector / Expedition

Northern Tribes of Central Australia fieldwork by Baldwin Spencer, Walter and Gillen, Francis James [March 1901 - March 1902]

Date

March 1901 - March 1902

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Image published in Baldwin Spencer, W. and F. J. Gillen, 1904. The Northern Tribes of Central Australia. (London), p. 51, fig. 25 with the following caption:
"Man of the Kaitish tribe, showing the curly nature of the hair." [WV 10/2/2009]

Expedition: Baldwin Spencer and Gillen spent one year from March 1901 to March 1902 in a traverse from Oodnadatta to Powell Creek and then across, eastwards to Borraloola at the mouth of the Macarthur River, on the Gulf of Carpentaria. (Baldwin Spencer, W., 1928. Wanderings in Wild Australia (Macmillan, London), Vol. 1, p. xvi). [WV 10/2/2009]

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. 76). [WV 10/2/2009]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Aboriginal Visual Histories Project, Monash University. [Wonu Veys 16/2/2009]