M0008705: A Kaytetye woman removing a girl's tooth, Australia

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

Reproduction of an illustration of a woman of the Kaytetye people (also written Kaititya and Kaitish) of the Northern Territory, Australia, removing a tooth from a girl lying on the ground. The illustration was originally published in Spencer, Baldwin: The Northern tribes of central Australia, London: Macmillan, 1904 and reproduced 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.

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