Barramundi totemic emblem or fish ranga from Cape Stewart, October 1952 [picture] / Axel Poignant
- Bib ID:
- 6074228
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Poignant, Axel, 1906-1986
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Cold Store Row A4/5/3 Folder 1 #PIC/5936/1034 copy
- Description:
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- 1952
- 1 negative : acetate, b&w ; 5.5 x 5.5 cm.
- Series:
- Poignant, Axel, 1906-1986. Photographs of Aboriginal life and customs, including Goulburn Island South, Liverpool River, Melville Island, Bathurst Island, Milingimbi, Arnhem Land and Elcho Island districts
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on information from label on verso.
- Part of the collection: Photographs of Aboriginal life and customs, including Goulburn Island South, Liverpool River, Melville Island, Bathurst Island, Milingimbi, Arnhem Land and Elcho Island districts.
- "Negative no.: AL 227.1"--Label on verso of print.
- Inscriptions: "Totemic emblem/ fish ranga ; Location: Milingimbi ; Date: Oct. 1952 ; Documentation: Found this in the mission store ... I was told it was a Barrimundi and was a totemic emblem or fish ranga from Cape Stewart. The core of the fish is a bundle of paper-bark, daubed with clay and wound round with string. The totemic design is painted over the clay-impregnated string. The eyes are shells and the tail a piece of wood. According to L. Warner in 'Black civilisation' Barrimundi is a yiritja moiety totem. I was told the little stick, wound round with white bird-down string was associated with the fish and represented a spear."--Label on verso; "Copyright Axel Poignant"--Stamped on verso.
- PIC Cold Store Row A4/5/3 Folder 1 #PIC/5936/1034 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138727827
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Poignant, Axel, 1906-1986
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- Copyright restrictions may apply.
- Exhibited:
- Exhibited: "Things: photographing the constructed world", Temporary Exhibition Gallery, National Library of Australia - 24 November 2012 - 17 March 2013.
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Photographs of Aboriginal life and customs, including Goulburn Island South, Liverpool River, Melville Island, Bathurst Island, Milingimbi, Arnhem Land and Elcho Island districts.
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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:
- 1952
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