M0003745: Group of women knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaytetye people, Australia

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaitish people, Australia.

Reproduction a photograph of a group of women from the Kaytetye people in Australia, knocking out a nude girl's tooth. The caption reads "in many Australian tribes it is custom to knock out one of the upper incisor teeth as son as a boy or girl reaches a certain age." 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

December 1933

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 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 2021.

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