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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 woman and child. Annotated "152. Young Aboriginal woman and baby. They usually become mothers at about 16 or 17 years of age"

  2. Australian Aboriginal man with hair do. Annotated "153. Head dress in Central Australia. This coiffure means as much to him as the pigtail did to the Chinaman or the 'permanent wave' to the modern debutante"

  3. two Australian Aboriginal men (one on camel) at tree. Annotated "155. A native orange tree. Aborigines, camels and cattle alike are fond of them. The Abo (Australian Aboriginal man) cannot reconcile the white man's shooting his kangaroos with his punishment for spearing the white man's cattle, which same devour his fruits and grasses" See also slide mrked "43. Abos (Australian Aboriginal people) and camels at wild orange tree"

Creator: Dr William Delano Walker
Control: AA 357/2/67/13 A-C
Date Range:  1923  -  1930
Quantity:  0.1cm,   4   photographs, 80x80mm lantern slides
Formats: Loose Photographic Prints
Series:  AA357/02