M0008736: Drawing of an ungakura, pointing apparatus

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Arunta people using ungakura pointing apparatus.

Reproduction of a drawing of an ungakura used by the Arrernte people, also known as Aranda or Arunta, a group of Aboriginal Australian people living in the Arrernte lands in central Australia. The reproduction is 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: M0008683

01 January 1943

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.