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Object type
Glass plate negatives
Object number
1985.0060.2632.001
Description
Black and white glass plate negative. Caption: Old Kai Kai, the leading medecine man of the western Aranda. 'The medicine man is not so much an individual who has the knowledge of medicinal values of herbs and surgical practices as one who is the recognized sorcerer..'. Note also the emu-feather skull cap, light-wood shield, and 'Kutturu'.
Reproduced by Basedow in "The Australian Aboriginal", FW Preece And Sons, Adelaide, 1925, plate VIII. Caption reads: 'Old Kai-Kai, the leading medicine man of the western Arunndta. / "The medicine man is not so much an individual who has the knowledge of medicinal values of herbs and surgical practices as one who is the recognized sorcerer. . . ." / (Note also the emu-feather skull cap, loght-wood shield, and "Kutturu.")'
Collection name
Dr Herbert Basedow collection
Photographer
Dr Herbert Basedow
Materials
Photographic emulsion, Glass
Dimensions
Length: 82mm
Width: 108mm
