IDNO

LS.109158.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Australia, W. Initiation - mutilation.
73. making the "operating table" -- shallow trench with a younger man on all fours.
74. man kneels on either side, a patch underneath supports others.
75. Final incision made above the lower hair line of pubes.
76. Penis held, prepuce pulled, cutting by white stone spearhead.
Photo coll. 9, 10, 13, 14." [first manuscript in ink]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Western Australia

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Hackett, Cecil John

Collector / Expedition

Date

1935

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information