IDNO

LS.109021.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "N. Australia.
Five N. Australian men (nude), one female. Port Essington."

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.482.ACH1: "Group of men and one woman, Port Essington."

Group of five men and one woman from Port Essington, all with cicatrisation on the abdomen and on the upper part of the thighs. The man to the left is holding pipe in his mouth and has a short beard and short hair. The second man to the left is wearing armbands on both arms and has a moustache. The third man from the left is wearing a necklace and an armband on the left arm. The two men on the right have moustache and a goatee beard. The woman on the right has cicatrisation marks organised in two rows of dots.
The landscape in the background consists of trees and palmlike trees. The people are standing on a sandy soil with some grasses growing in it. [WV 24/4/2009]

The British established Fort Dundas in 1824, but the Tiwi were too fierce so they had to leave in 1829 and then established Port Essington. Port Essington wasn't successful and the British relocated to Darwin, circa 1860s. The Iwadga people are the group from around Port Essington, Cobourg Peninsula, on the western side closer to Tiwi Islands. [Information from Bede Tungutalum, Tiwi artist, and Diana Wood Conroy, University of Wollongong, JD 10/30/2015]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Northern Territory; Port Essington

Cultural Affliation

Iwadga

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Date

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

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