IDNO

LS.109003.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Unmatjera.
Side view of head of man. String round hair, kangaroo tooth ear ornament."

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

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia

Cultural Affliation

Anmatyerre [historically Unmatjera]

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

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: The Anmatyerre are a cultural group from the Northern Territory, Mt. Allen, northwest Alice Springs Region. [Source: Ethnologue 15th ed, JD 20/8/2009]

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