IDNO

LS.109141.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Australia, N.W.
2 men, Cygnet Bay, King Sound, with ladder-like head-dresses, holding churinga, decorated for ceremony." [manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.553.ACH1: "Two leaders in large corroborree decorated with wallaby down stuck on with blood drawn from the arms of the head man of each tribe. Headdress is made from yarn spun from the fur. Cygnet bay."

Two men from Cygnet Bay posing and showing their body decoration which consists of wallaby down stuck on with blood drawn from the arms of the head man of each tribe. The pattern in X-shape is formed by dots. The pattern on the face consists of parallel lines. Both men are wearing large headdresses in ladder shape for which each of the rungs are composed of yarn spun from wallaby fur. Both men are holding long boards of wood which are decorated with white parallel lines. The landscape in the background consists of grasses and small trees. [WV 6/5/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Western Australia; King Sound; Cygnet Bay

Cultural Affliation

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

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