M0008683: Two images of Arrernte men

Date:
July 1942
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/75/92
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M0008683: Two images of Arrernte men. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2020: 2 images Arunta Tribe's position assumed when using the Ungakura Pointing apparatus

Description

Reproductions of two images of men of the Arrernte people, also known as Aranda or Arunta, a group of Aboriginal Australian people living in the Arrernte lands in central Australia. The first image shows two men using a ungakura. The second shows the position assumed when pointing the irna. The reproductions are from Spencer, Baldwin and Gillen, F. J: The northern tribes of central Australia, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York : The Macmillan Company, 1927. Related images: M0008736

Publication/Creation

July 1942

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds an earlier issue of the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2020.

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