Final burial ceremonies for a Warumungu woman, men standing over ritual mortuary trench and women approaching with the arm bones of the dead woman, Tennant Creek, Central Australia, 23 August 1901

Photographers: Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen

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Item XP 9534 Glass plate. Warumungu. Tennant Creek, Central Australia, Northern Territory, Australia. /07/1901 - /09/1901

Summary

Final burial ceremonies for a Warumungu woman, men standing over ritual mortuary trench and women approaching with the arm bones of the dead woman.

Physical Description

Silver gelatin emulsion. Quarter plate.

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Object/Medium

Glass plate
Photographer

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

Warumungu
Locality

Tennant Creek, Central Australia, Northern Territory, Australia
Date Produced

/07/1901 - /09/1901
Keywords

People, Mortuary, Ceremony, Fauna
References

[Book] Spencer, Walter B. & Gillen, Francis J. 1904. The Northern Tribes of Central Australia.
Collection Names

Spencer and Gillen Collection
Type of item

Image
Discipline

Ethnohistory
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Central and Western and South Australian Ethnographic, Ethnohistory

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