M0005257: Bora ceremony, Wailwan land, near the Macquarie River, Australia, 1898

Date:
17 November 1937
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/42/88
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Credit

M0005257: Bora ceremony, Wailwan land, near the Macquarie River, Australia, 1898. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Gathering wild birds' eggs from, Aboriginals of New South Wales.

Description

Photograph of a group of people gathering wild birds' eggs as part of the Bora ceremony, New South Wales, Australia. Photograph taken by Charles Henry Kerry. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the item contains images of deceased persons

Publication/Creation

17 November 1937

Physical description

2 photographs glass plate negatives; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the album that contains the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 38104i

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.

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