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Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker

Archive Collections / Dr William Delano Walker / Series AA357/02 / Photographic Prints taken by Dr WD and Mrs MV Walker

  1. Australian Aboriginal man in hole. Annotated "130. An Aboriginal (having observed that the goanna is 'at home' from a single glance at the multitude of tracks around his hole) digging out a goanna with his yam stick (sharpened mulga digging stick)"

  2. Australian Aboriginal man pulling goanna from hole in ground. Annotated "131. After digging for anything up to 5 minutes, he is rewarded for his efforts. (He never makes a mistake, to dig out an empty hole would make him an object of redicule in the tribe.)"

  3. Australian Aborignal man with emu on shoulders. Annotated "132. An emu victim of his unerring spear, He put a hole in my hat at 30 yards"

  4. Australian Aboriginal man throwing a spear, Annotated "133. Wild Aborigine about to spear a kangaroo, 200 miles West of Alice Springs"

  5. two Australian Aboriginal men each with a kangaroo, on his shoulders. Annotated "134. Wild Aborigines. With kangaroos speared at Bapoodna Water hole 200 miles West of Alice Springs"

  6. Australian Aboriginal man scraping cooked kangaroo. Annotated "136. Cooking kangaroo. A huge fire is built in a hole in the ground and allowed to burn down to coals. The coals are removed and the kangaroo, (having been singed off) is placed in the primitive oven and then covered with the coals, skin and all. It takes 3 hrs to properly cook but the Abo eats it after about an hour and he always drinks the hot blood in the abdomen"

Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/2/67/10 A-F
Date Range:  1923  -  1930
Quantity:  0.1cm,    
Formats: Loose Photographic Prints
Series:  AA357/02