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Object type
Lantern slides
Object number
1985.0060.3052
Description
Lantern slide of a black and white glass plate negative. The picture shows two indigenous men with beards holding spears and spear throwers. They are also wearing tall shaved wood head adornments. The top of the glass above the picture on the left has a crack.
Reproduced by Basedow in "The Australian Aboriginal", FW Preece and Sons, Adelaide, 1925, plate IX/2. Caption reads: 'Wongapitcha men wearing ornamental wooden hair-pins known as "elenba." Note charcoal rubbed over the foreheads.'
Collection name
Dr Herbert Basedow collection
Photographer
Dr Herbert Basedow
Materials
Photographic emulsion, Glass
Dimensions
Width: 82mm
Height: 82mm
