- Bib ID:
- 4926875
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976
- Access Conditions:
- Restricted - Aboriginal ceremonial, gender specific material (men's business).
- Description:
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- 1940
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8.1 x 10.6 cm.
- Series:
- Central Australia photograph album.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer from inscription and reference sources.
- In album: Central Australia photograph album.
- Inscriptions: "Rubbing ringili - Rainmaking ceremony. Oparina"--Below image.
- Condition: Silvering.
- The photographs published by Mountford have been cropped differently.
- Published in: Brown men and red sand / Charles Mountford. Melbourne : Sun Books, 1967, opposite page 97, with caption: Rain making ceremony. Tilbukuna rubbing pearl-shell ornament across a flat stone to extract the kuranita (life essence) of rain.
- Published in: Nomads of the Australian desert / Charles P. Mountford. Adelaide : Rigby, 1976, p. 276 (pl. 304), with caption: Rubbing pearl-shell across grinding stone covered with blood and grass.
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1940
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