M0013691: A woman carrying a child on her shoulders, Central Australia

Date:
October 1954
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/122/86
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M0013691: A woman carrying a child on her shoulders, Central Australia. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced January 2022: Child carried on mother's shoulders, Central Australia.

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of an Arrernte woman carrying a child on her shoulders. The original photograph was taken in 1894 at Alice Springs, Central Australia, Northern Territory, Australia, by Sir Walter B. Spencer and published in Spencer,Walter Baldwin and Gillen, F. J: The native tribes of central Australia, London : Macmillan and Co., 1899

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Publication/Creation

October 1954

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 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 2022.

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