'Christmas Gathering Arandas Section see new Coopertown at Rear. No 4 & 5 Photos go Side by Side - 250 - 300 Men woman & children collected from both sides.'

Archive Collections / Aborigines' Friends' Association / Series AA1/61 / 'Christmas Gathering Arandas Section see new Coopertown at Rear. No 4 & 5 Photos go Side by Side - 250 - 300 Men woman & children collected from both sides.'

Image: Landscape scene showing several men, women and children sitting on the ground in a group. There are several bags and buckets probably containing supplies and the tyre tracks of a vehicle can be seen in the foreground. There are several huts made from some sort of cloth in the background.

Annotations: 'Christmas Gathering Arandas Section see new Coopertown at Rear. No 4 & 5 Photos go Side by Side - 250 - 300 Men woman & children collected from both sides.'

Captioned: 'Photographs captioned but with no location.'

Other Information: This photo probably taken by the missionary, Ernest E Kramer (see AA 669), see Series AA 1/25/1 for handwriting sample with a signature. 'New Coopertown' was a town camp just outside of Alice Springs.

Negatives on file: not available

Photographed in: Northern Territory.

This item includes reference to the following named group: 'Aranda'.

Tindale Tribes: Aranda.

This corresponds to AIATSIS Language Groups: Arrernte.

CreatorAborigines' Friends' Association
ControlAA 1/61/8
Quantity 0.1cm,   1   photographic print
FormatsLoose Photographic Prints
Series AA1/61
Tindale Tribes: