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Glass plate negative - Rock engravings, Deception Creek, Red Gorge, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, between 1905 and 1914
Film negative - Women carrying large plaited baskets, Liverpool River, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1928
Film negative - Different ways of wearing the hair, Petermann Ranges, Northern Territory, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1926
Rock carvings, circa 1905-14

Women carrying large baskets and a child, 1928

Portrait of two men, 1926

Lantern slide - Pitjantjatjara man, central Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1920-1924
Copy negative - Boy practicing with toy shield and boomerang, Arrernte people, Alberga Creek, South Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1920-1924
Glass plate negative - The game of
Portrait of a man with long hair and painted markings, 1920 or 1923

Boy with a toy shield and boomerang, 1920 or 1923

Men and boys playing a game of 'gorri', 1922

Glass plate negative - Youth on raft, Worora people, George Water, Western Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1916
Glass plate negative - An episode in the great fire ceremony, Forrest River mission, Western Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1916
Glass plate negative - Fish-tail bark and dug-out canoes, Melville Island, Northern Territory, in the background, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1911
Young man on a mangrove tree raft, 1916

Man in a great fire ceremony, 1916

Boys in a dugout and two bark canoes, 1911

Black and white negative glass lantern slide - Expedition guides next to wet-weather huts, photographed by Herbert Basedow, Liverpool River, 1928
Glass plate negative - Luritja man demonstrating method of attack with boomerang under cover of shield, central Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1920
Lantern slide - Pitjantjatjara men wearing wooden hair ornaments known as
Expedition guides next to wet-weather huts, 1928

Man demonstrating method of attack with boomerangs and a shield, 1920

Two men with wooden hair ornaments, spears and shields, 1920 or 1923

Glass plate negative - Man stalking  kangaroo, central Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1920
Glass plate negative - Man holding north-western type of spearthrower and wearing pubic fur tassel, Wadaman people, Northern Territory, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1922
Glass plate negative - Week old baby sleeping in a wooden container, Innamincka station, South Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1919
Man stalking a kangaroo, 1920

Man with a spear-thrower, 1922

Week-old baby asleep in a wooden container, 1919

Glass plate negative - Hut decked with porcupine grass, eastern Arrernte people, Arltunga, Northern Territory, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1920
Glass plate negative - Rock engraving of human form, Port Hedland, Western Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1916
Glass plate negative - Two men throwing spears
Old man in a wooden shelter with grass roofing, 1920

Rock engraving of a human form, 1916

Two men demonstrating the use of spear-thowers, 1922

Glass plate negative - Woman decorated with pipe-clay markings, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1923
Copy negative - Women carrying water, Wadaman people, Northern Territory, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1922
Glass plate negative - Men showing their scars,  Port George IV, Western Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1916
Woman painted with pipe-clay, 1923

Women carrying water, 1922

Young men showing their scars, 1916

Film negative - Group of people, Mount Currie, Northern Territory, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1926
Glass plate negative - Preparing for an emu hunt, Wogait people, Anson Bay, Northern Territory, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1905-1911
Glass plate negative - Men fighting with clubs called
Group of people, seated, 1926

Preparing for an emu hunt, 1905 or 1911

Men duelling with clubs, 1920

Lantern slide - Man scraping boomerang with a sharp stone flake, Luritja people, central Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1920
Glass plate negative - Rock paintings, Forrest River, Western Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1916
Glass plate negative - Old Kai Kai, a Western Arrernte man, Henbury station, Northern Territory, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1920
Man scraping a boomerang with a sharp stone flake, 1920

Rock paintings,1916

Old man, sitting, 1920

Glass plate negative - Woman carrying pet opossum on her head while on the march, Pongaponga people, western Arnhem land, Northern Territory, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1922
Film negative - Aboriginal children bathing, Sunday Island, Western Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1916
Film negative - Girl, Unnrubinna, tobogganing on the granite slopes at Kurrekapinya Soakage, Ayers Ranges, Northern Territory, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1903
Woman with a pet possum on her head, 1922

Children resting on a mangrove tree stump while bathing, 1916

Girl tobogganing down a granite slope, 1903

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