This item is divided into two groups: one comprising 37 colour 35mm negatives divided into 'Series A' (16 negatives) and 'Series B' (21 negatives) labelled AA 267/2/2/1-37; and the second proofs of the same with one additional proof labelled AA 267/2/2/38-75.

Descriptions of the images by Peter Melville Rice are as follows:

'Series A - Spearmaking

• P1 Tacoma sticks and wood working implement. The Tacoma tree is the principle source of spear wood in the area.
  
  
• P2 Munjunji The spear-maker has lit a fire and is about to straighten the tacoma sticks using heat.
  
  
• P3 Heating the sticks in the fire.
  
  
• P4 Munjunji uses his hands and his foot to bend the hot spear wood.
  
  
• P5 When the sticks have been straightened, the bark is stripped from them and any small knotches etc. are removed with the wood working implement which is shown resting on Munjunji's thighs.
  
  
• P6 The shafts of the spear have been made ready and joined to a smaller spear head which has been shaped from a hard wood such as mulga or iron wood. The spear head is attached to the shaft with a resinous gum from the spinifex bush. The joint is then bound with the hind leg sinew of the kangaroo or euro.
  
  
• P7 The spear has been completed, but it may not be used for hunting for several days during which time it continues to be cured in the sum or with the heat from camp fires.
  
  

Series B - Seed grinding

• P1 edible seed is collected by thrashing the growing plants or by teasing the seeds from the husks and stalks as shown. The seeds are collected in a large shallow dish.
  
  
• P2 The seed is then winnowed in the large disk to remove the husks and any remaining stalks etc.
  
  
• P3 The seed is placed on the large flat grinding stone and it is then ground with the small round stone. A small dish is palced underneath the large stone to collect the flour as it is pushed forward following grinding.
  
  
• P4 The seed grinding has now been completed and the flour is collected in the small wooden dish.
  
  

NOTE: Edible seed flour is mixed with water and cooked as a damper or Johnny cake directly over a bed of hot coal. When cooking has been completed, the adhereing coals are rubbed off. No cooking utensil is used in this process.'

Even though the negatives and proofs are labelled spearmaking and seed grinding they also include negatives and proofs of items from Series 3.

Tindale Tribes: Pitjandjara.