M0005686: Intichiuma ceremony of the Unjiamba and Intichiuma ceremony of the Quatcha, Central Australia
- Date:
- 23 September 1938
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/46/97
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
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About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced November 2021: Performing the Mbanbiuma ceremony
Description
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the photograph contains images of deceased persons
Reproduction of two photographs of Intichiuma, sacred ceremonies, performed by Arrernte men in Central Australia. One concerns the Unjiamba, or Hakea tree, and shows a man pouring blood onto the stone. The other concerns a rain-making ceremony and shows one man covered in down, representing the rainbow. The photographs are reproduced in Spencer, Baldwin and Gillen, F: The native tribes of central Australia, London : Macmillan and Co, 1899. Copies of the book images were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10944 and PHO 10945).
Publication/Creation
23 September 1938
Physical description
2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
Related material
Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative
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.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request