IDNO

LS.109159.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]

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.632.ACH1: "Initiation, W. A. (10) Making the "Operating table" Then a man kneels on either side of him and a 4th. creeps underneath and into the trench, and raising himself there on his hands and knees he supports the other 3. 9/11".

Group of three men kneeling over a shallow trench which serves as the operating table. One man has crept underneath and into the trench. He is raising himself there on his hands and knees and supports the other three. There are a few men sitting down close by. There are some slender trees in the background. [WV 12/5/2009]

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