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Lantern slide - Man scraping boomerang with a sharp stone flake, Luritja people, central Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1920

Object type
Lantern slides

Object number
1985.0060.2645.002

Description
Lantern slide of a black and white glass plate negative. Caption: Man scraping boomerang with a sharp stone flake. Kukatja tribe, central Australia.

Reproduced by Basedow in "The Australian Aboriginal", FW Preece And Sons, Adelaide, 1925, plate LV/2. Caption reads: 'Aluridja man scraping a boomerang with a sharp stone flake.'

Collection name
Dr Herbert Basedow collection

Photographer
Dr Herbert Basedow

Place photographed
Central Australia, Northern Territory, Australia

Date photographed
1920

Place depicted
Central Australia, Northern Territory, Australia

Date photographed
1920

Materials
Photographic emulsion

Dimensions
Length: 82mm
Width: 82mm

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