IDNO

LS.109146.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Australia. N. Arunta.
Initiation.
Women stripping poles just before the ceremony of lartna." [first manuscript in ink]
"Nat. T.C.A. fig. 41 p. 245." [second manuscript in ink]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.363.ACH1: "Arunta initiation. Women stripping poles. North. T.C.A. fig. 41."

Northern Aranda (Arunta) women stripping the Arachitta, leafy poles used during the circumcision ceremony, just before the Lartna, ceremony of circumcision. The women are wearing a waist belt. A group of Aranda (Arunta) men are sitting down in the background. The landscape consists of shrubbery. [WV 4/2/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Central Australia

Cultural Affliation

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

Named Person

Photographer

Baldwin Spencer, Walter; or 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

Publication: Image published in Baldwin Spencer, W., and F.J. Gillen, 1899. The Native Tribes of Central Australia, (MacMillan and Co. Ltd., London), p. 245, fig 41 with the following caption:
"Women stripping the poles. just before the ceremony of Lartna in the Northern Arunta tribe" [WV 4/2/2009]

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 23/1/2009]

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: "Lartna: The ceremony of circumcision." (Baldwin Spencer, W., and F.J. Gillen, 1899. The Native Tribes of Central Australia, (MacMillan and Co. Ltd., London), p. 652) [WV 4/2/2009]

Context: "Arachitta: Name given to poles decorated with leafy twigs and used during the circumcision ceremony" (Baldwin Spencer, W., and F.J. Gillen, 1899. The Native Tribes of Central Australia, (MacMillan and Co. Ltd., London), p. 646." [WV 4/2/2009]