IDNO

LS.109103.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Australia, WARRAMUNGA.
Fire Ceremony.
Woman climbing wintari pole." [first manuscript in ink]
"North. T.C.A. p. 382." [second manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.402.ACH1: "Fire ceremony. Women climbing pole. Warramunga. North T.C.A. p.382."

Group of Waramanga (Warramunga) women and children dancing around the pole set up as part of the fire ceremony. One of the women is climbing into the pole. There is one dog? running around. The landscape in the background consists shrubbery. [WV 19/2/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia

Cultural Affliation

Warramuga [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

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]

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]

Context: The fire ceremony amongst the Waramanga is explained in Baldwin Spencer and Gillen:
"When all was ready the women were summoned, and came up to the pole dancing in the usuall manner (Fig. 119). For a short time they clustered around it, and two or three of them attempted to climb it." (Baldwin Spencer, W. and F. J. Gillen, 1904. The northern tribes of central Australia. (London), p. 377-378). [WV 19/2/2009]