M0005585: Girl with body painting, North Queensland

Date:
August 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/45/97
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Girl with body painting after seclusion for puberty.

Description

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the photograph contains images of deceased persons

Reproduction of a photograph published in Thomson, Donald F: "The Hero Cult, Initiation and Totemism on Cape York", Man, vol.63, 1933. A copy of the photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10866).

Publication/Creation

August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

Where to find it

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