Summary
Note: This image depicts people wearing 'black face'. Such activities are not condoned by Museums Victoria which considers them to be racist. Historical distance and context do not excuse or erase this fact.
Description of Content
Children in blackface at Yarrango State School. Some have left an area around one eye unpainted, some around their nose and some on a cheek.
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Collecting Areas
Leisure, Clothing & Textiles, Public Life & Institutions, Images & Image Making, Childhood
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Acquisition Information
Copied from Terry Allen, 07 Dec 1987
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Place & Date Depicted
Yarrango State School, Karawinna District, Victoria, Australia, circa 1930
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Format
Negative, 35 mm, Black & White
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