Summary
These Aboriginal women are posing with their children for this image to be taken. The digging stick and stitched bark container on the left no doubt belonged to one of these women. This is one of two images Spencer took at Daly River in 1912, the other being a panorama. It was taken during Spencer's twelve month term as the Chief Protector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory in 1912, and he noted that the trip along the Daly River was intended to identify a "position for the future settlement".
The image was most likely of the visit to the Daly River of the Federal Parliamentary Party to the Northern Territory in April-May 1912. On this trip to Daly River, Spencer also took panoramas on roll film, which was a relatively new technology at the time.
Physical Description
Black and white print. Group portrait, outdoor setting. Handwritten annotations on reverse.
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107 mm (Length), 151 mm (Width)
Orientation: landscape
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Ethnohistory, Australian Indigenous - Northern Australia and Queensland and Torres Strait Islands