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Place Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Kimberley
Accession Number P08151.028.005
Collection type Photograph
Object type Paper (Fibre-based), Silver Gelatin
Physical description Paper (Fibre-based), Silver Gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Kimberley
Date made 1912-1915
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

An informal outdoor portrait of a group of seven Aboriginal men wearing loincloths and painted in traditional war/performance paints. Some men hold woomeras, spears and miru. One of a series of photographs either taken or collected by Roy Cecil Phillipps (later Squadron Leader R.C Phillipps MC & Bar DFC) when employed by the pastoralist firm Connor, Doherty & Durack Ltd in the Kimberley region of Western Australia prior to his enlistment in April 1915.

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