M0008706: A stone containing spirit-children.

Previous title, replaced October 2020: A stone containing spirit-children.

Photograph of an Aboriginal Australian woman kneeling by a stone believed to contain the spirit of children. By visiting the stone a woman would become pregnant. The photograph was published in Hutchinson, Walter: Customs of the world : a popular account of the manners, rites and ceremonies of men and women in all countries, London: Hutchinson, 1913

1942

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.