An Aboriginal Australian boy who completed the Bora initation ceremony holding onto the ceremonial Bora Tree, Macquarie Marshes, New South Wales, ca. 1895 [picture] / Charles H. Kerry
- Bib ID:
- 5465478
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Kerry, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1857-1928
- Access Conditions:
- Restricted - Aboriginal ceremonial and gender specific material (men's business).
- Description:
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- between 1890 and 1900
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 15 x 20.2 cm.
- Series:
- Photographs of religious ceremonies of the Australian Aborigines.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription.
- Part of the collection: Photographs of religious ceremonies of the Australian Aborigines.
- Photographs of portraits and scenes of Aboriginals, commissioned by the N.S.W. Government.
- "Kerry & Co Photo, 30B Geo. St, Sydney, Copyright"--Photographer's blind stamp lower left corner.
- Inscriptions: "Aboriginal ceremony, The Bora Tree, 2607"--Lower middle of photograph; "One of the marked trees with totems or tribal markings of one of the boys who passed through the Bora ordeal."--Attached typed note on bottom of album page.
- Condition: Silvering, yellowing.
- Digital master available; National Library of Australia, Pictures collection;
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Macquarie Marshes -- Photographs
- Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies -- Photographs
- Initiation rites -- New South Wales -- Macquarie Marshes -- Photographs
- Ceremonial objects -- New South Wales -- Macquarie Marshes -- Photographs
- Body painting -- New South Wales -- Macquarie Marshes -- Photographs
- Art, Aboriginal Australian -- New South Wales -- Macquarie Marshes -- Photographs
- Macquarie Marshes (N.S.W.) -- Photographs
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Photographs of religious ceremonies of the Australian Aborigines.
This collection contains 23 records. - Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1900
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