Preparing for circumcision

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A group of older men sitting with a decorated youth before a circumcision rite. There are men gathered on the other side of the clearing in the background, with hills and scrubland behind them.

Formerly AP5977.

For mounted album photograph see AA108/24/58/4.

550. '5977 B'.
551. 'Duplicate'.

Photograph taken central Australia.

Tindale Tribes: Aranda.

AIATSIS Tribal/Language Groups: Arrernte.

Creator: Francis James Gillen
Control: AA 108/50/1/3/550-551
Date Range:  1890  -  1902
Quantity:    2   Print (b&w print, b&w print from album).
Formats: Loose Photographic Prints
Series:  AA 108/50
Tindale Tribes: