Summary
This photograph is taken in an Aboriginal camp around the turn of the twentieth century. On the reverse is stamped "A ATKINSON/ PHOTOGRAPHER CAIRNS". The bicornual basket in the shelter to the right indicates it was taken around the rainforest region of northeast Queensland. Objects in the collection from the photographer Alfred Atkinson mostly come from the area of Atherton on the Tableland or around Cairns. This man in the centre could be the same young man demonstrating boomerang throwing in another Atkinson photograph in the collection (see XP15766).
Physical Description
Black and white photograph found loose in an album of photographic postcards and photos. Two boys throwing spears using spearthrowers. Shelters and young man in picture. Photographer's stamp on the reverse. Diagonal creases in the paper.
More Information
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Object/Medium
Photograph
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Photographer
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Date Produced
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Image Dimensions - Photograph
135 mm (Length), 100 mm (Width)
Orientation: Landscape
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Keywords
People, Material culture, Household, Buildings and Structures
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Type of item
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Collecting Areas
Ethnohistory, Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands
