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Warumungu man mixing plant down with white pipe-clay in preparation for ceremonial decorations.
Silver gelatin emulsion. Quarter plate.
Glass plate
Tennant Creek, Central Australia, Northern Territory, Australia
Central and Western and South Australian Ethnographic, Ethnohistory