IDNO

LS.109093.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Australia.
Stone churinga, Arunta, Kaitish and
Warramunga.
s & g. N.T. p. 131.

[Diagram of photograph showing ten churinga, numbered 1-10.]
1. 1.a. [centre] Arunta. Chringa + human hair string carried about together.
2. [top right] Arunta EURO totem (?Hill Kanjawo).
3. [bottom right] Arunta water totem.
4. [bottom left] Arunta Wichelty grub totem.
5. [on right] Arunta Hakea tree.
6. [second from bottom left] Warramunga churinga + feathers.
7. [on left] Warramunga churinga + feathers.
8. [second from top left] Kaitish.
9. [top left] Kaitish.
10. [beteen 3 &4] Arunta- Churingas.
For a churinga, compared w. a
painted pebble fr. Mas d’ Azil,
see 228.33." [first manuscript in ink]
"Nat. T.C.A. fig.21.
B.S. photo." [second manuscript in ink]

Documentary photograph of eleven stone churinga of the Arunta, Kaitish and Warramunga tribes and identified by Baldwin Spencer and Gillen as follows:
"1 [centre], 1a [left of the central piece], Churinga enclosed in human hair string and carried about together, Arunta tribe; 2 [middle right], Churinga of euro totem, Arunta tribe; 3 [middle left], Churinga of water totem, Arunta tribe; 4 [top left], Churinga of witchetty grub totem, Arunta tribe; 5 [bottom central], Churinga of Hakea tree totem, Arunta tribe; 6 [top, second from left],7 [top central], Churinga and feather covering of the Warramunga tribe; 8 [top, second from right], 9 [top, right], Churinga of the Kaitish tribe."
(1912, Vol. I, p. 210, fig 85). [WV 28/1/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia; Arunta

Cultural Affliation

Arunta; Kaitish; Warramunga [also known as Warumungu]

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

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, 1912. Across Australia (Macmillan, London), Vol. I, p. 210, fig 85 with the following caption:
"1, 1a, Churinga enclosed in human hair string and carried about together, Arunta tribe; 2, Churinga of euro totem, Arunta tribe; 3, Churinga of water totem, Arunta tribe; 4, Churinga of witchetty grub totem, Arunta tribe; 5, Churinga of Hakea tree totem, Arunta tribe; 6,7, Churinga and feather covering of the Warramunga tribe; 8,9, Churinga of the Kaitish tribe."

Publication: Image published in Baldwin Spencer, W., 1928. Wanderings in Wild Australia (Macmillan, London), Vol. I, p. 275, fig. 157 with the same caption as above.

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 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]