Ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna Miyurna yartangka. Munaintya puru purruna ngadlu-itya. Munaintyanangku yalaka tarrkarriana tuntarri.

We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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'Preparing for ceremony'

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Group of men preparing for ceremony, sitting in a semicircle behind three ceremonial poles.

Formerly AP6037.

For mounted album photograph see AA108/8/43/4 & AA108/12/12/7.

532. 'Preparing for ceremony. Preparing for a ceremony. L.H. Griffiths. Preparing for a ceremony. C. Australia period 1896-1897. Presented by Mrs. L.H. Griffiths April 1950'.
533. 'Book II no39'.

Photograph taken Central Australia.

Tindale Tribes: Aranda.

AIATSIS Tribal/Language Groups: Arrernte.

CreatorFrancis James Gillen
ControlAA 108/50/1/3/532-533
Date Range1896  -  1897
Quantity   2   Print (b&w mounted prints).
FormatsLoose Photographic Prints, Mounted Photographic Prints
Series AA 108/50
Tindale Tribes:
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