M0005686: Intichiuma ceremony of the Unjiamba and Intichiuma ceremony of the Quatcha, Central Australia

Date:
23 September 1938
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WT/D/1/20/1/46/97
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M0005686: Intichiuma ceremony of the Unjiamba and Intichiuma ceremony of the Quatcha, Central Australia. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: Performing the Mbanbiuma ceremony

Description

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the photograph contains images of deceased persons

Reproduction of two photographs of Intichiuma, sacred ceremonies, performed by Arrernte men in Central Australia. One concerns the Unjiamba, or Hakea tree, and shows a man pouring blood onto the stone. The other concerns a rain-making ceremony and shows one man covered in down, representing the rainbow. The photographs are reproduced in Spencer, Baldwin and Gillen, F: The native tribes of central Australia, London : Macmillan and Co, 1899. Copies of the book images were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10944 and PHO 10945).

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds 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 2021.

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