IDNO

LS.109133.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Australia.
2 men decorated for Ceremony." [manuscript in ink]

Frontal portrait of three Aranda (Arunta) men decorated for a totemic ceremony. Two of the men are wearing a bone? through the nose. They are all wearing belts from which a special feather is hanging. The two men on the left are painted with white? clay and the pattern is lined with white down. There is some shrubbery in the background. [WV 21/5/2009, from record P.52220., JD 21/8/2012]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia; Alice Springs

Cultural Affliation

Aranda [also known as Arunta; Arrarnta; Arrarnte; Arunda; Arrente]

Named Person

Photographer

Baldwin Spencer, Walter; 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: 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]