'Kangaroo totem being performed before Wartja or candidate for circumcision at Apulla ground'

Archive Collections / Francis James Gillen / Series AA 108/50 / 'Kangaroo totem being performed before Wartja or candidate for circumcision at Apulla ground'

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Men performing the kangaroo totem ceremony. Men sitting and watching a few men perform.

Formerly AP1163.

For mounted album photograph see AA108/2/45/4_p44_AP1163 & AA108/22/15/2.

For glass slides and plates see AA108/41/3_AP1163.

334. 'Kangaroo ceremony before Wartja see initiation paper'.
335. 'Kangaroo totem being performed before Wartja or candidate for circumcision at Apulla ground'.

Photograph taken Eastern MacDonnell Ranges, NT.

Tindale Tribes: Aranda.

AIATSIS Tribal/Language Groups: Arrernte.

Creator: Francis James Gillen

Control: AA 108/50/1/2/334-335

Date Range: 1890 - 1902

Quantity: 2 Print (b&w print from slide, sepia print).

Formats: Loose Photographic Prints

Series: AA 108/50

Tindale Tribes:

Aranda