IDNO

LS.109017.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Three men, side view, head and bust."

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.312.ACH1: "Side view of 3 men."

Half-length profile portrait of three Aranda (Arunta) men, bare-chested with the two men on either side having cicatrisation across their chests and abdomens. All three men have full beards and moustaches and are wearing chilara (hair bands). A rocky landscape in the background. [WV 27/1/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia; ?Macdonnell Ranges; ?Macumba River; ?Alice Springs

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

Expedition: In Baldwin Spencer, W., and F.J. Gillen, 1899. The Native Tribes of Central Australia, (MacMillan and Co. Ltd., London), the preface, p. viii, states: "During the summer of 1896-97, the natives gathered together at Alice Springs to perform an important series of ceremonies, constituting what is called the Engwura, and this, which occupied more than three months, we witnessed toegether." [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]

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

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Aboriginal Visual Histories Project, Monash University. [Wonu Veys 23/1/2009]