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Photographers: Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen

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Item XP 14338 Glass plate. Binbinga, Yanyuwa. Borroloola, Gulf, Northern Territory, Australia. Nov 1901

Summary

Portrait of a man man identified by Yanyuwa elders in the early 1980s as the rainmaker Jack Wajamara.

Physical Description

Silver gelatin emulsion. Half plate.

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Object/Medium

Glass plate
Photographer

W. B. Spencer & F. J. Gillen
Cultural Groups

Binbinga, Yanyuwa
Locality

Borroloola, Gulf, Northern Territory, Australia
Date Produced

Nov 1901
Person Depicted

Jack Wajamara
Associate Professor John Bradley - Monash University
Keywords

People
References

[Article - Journal] Bradley, John. 2014. "Why Can't They Put Their Names?": Colonial Photography, Repatriation and Social Memory. History and Anthropology. 25 (1)
Collection Names

Spencer and Gillen Collection
Type of item

Image
Discipline

Ethnohistory
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Ethnohistory, Central and Western and South Australian Ethnographic

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Item XP 14338 Glass plate. Binbinga, Yanyuwa. Borroloola, Gulf, Northern Territory, Australia. Nov 1901

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