IDNO

LS.109007.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Australia, S.
Front and side of 2 men.
Wonkangura tribe."

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia

Cultural Affliation

Nguri; Wongkumara [historically Wonkangura]

Named Person

Photographer

Horne, George (Dr)

Collector / Expedition

Horne, George (Dr) [Expedition to Central Australia, 1923]

Date

1923

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Similar image likely in Horne, G. and G. Ainston, 1924. Savage Life in Central Australia (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited), Fig. 14, p. 14. [JD 19/8/2009]

Biographical Information: George Horne (1860 - 1927) was an Australian physician and surgeon. Upon his return from service during the First World War, Horne specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. He lectured on obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Melbourne. Outside of medicine, Horne was interested in ethnology. In 1923, he undertook an expedition to Central Australia to study the life and habits of Aboriginal peoples. The expedition’s results were recorded and published in Savage Life in Central Australia (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited). He collected many Aboriginal stone implements that were presented to the Australian Museum of Natural History in 1926. [Source: Royal Women’s Hospital, Victoria, Australia, www.thewomenshistory.org.au/biogs/e000018b.htm, JD 19/8/2009]

Cultural Group: The Wongkumara were a cultural group from northwest New South Wales and southwest Queensland who spoke a dialect of the Nguri language. It is unlikely that any speakers remain. [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. [Jocelyne Dudding 20/8/2009]