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

Date:
December 1933
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/31/12
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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About this work

Also known as

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

Description

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

Publication/Creation

December 1933

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

Notes

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.

Terms of use

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