IDNO

LS.109008.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Worgaia.
Side view of head of Medicine Man, showing the hairs pulled out on the lips.
North. T.C.A. fig. 32."

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia

Cultural Affliation

Nguri; Wongkumara [historically Wonkangura]

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), fig. 32. [JD 20/8/2009]

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]

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