M0012419: Bark drawings of a man spearing a kangaroo

Date:
March 1952
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/111/4
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Anatomy, Bark drawings of skeleton of man spearing a kangaroo, Australia

Description

Photograph of a bark drawing showing a man spearing a kangaroo created by indigenous Australians living in Kakadu, North Australia. This reproduction was taken from Spencer, Baldwin: Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia, London: 1914. Related images: M0012418, M0012420

Publication/Creation

March 1952

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 2022.

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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