IDNO

LS.109042.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: “Warramunga.
Side view of head of two young boys, abt 8 abd 6 years old. Boys much alike everywhere.
North T.C.A., fig. 19, pp. 47, 48.”

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.313.ACH1: “Warramunga, side view of 2 boys heads, North T.C.A., fig.19.”

Head and shoulders profile portrait of two Waramanga (Warramunga) boys. The boys are approximately eight and six years old. The boy on the right is possibly wearing body paint? or chalk?. [WV 27/1/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia

Cultural Affliation

Waramanga [historically Warramunga]

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), p. 48, fig. 19 with the following caption:
“Two young boys. Warramunga tribe.” [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]

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]

Cultural Group: Baldwin Spencer and Gillen describe the Waramanga [Warramunga] nation as including the Warramunga, Worgaia, Tjingilli, Umbaia, Bingongina, Walpari, Wulmala, and Gnanji tribes. (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 16/2/2009]