Four Aboriginal men wearing body paint and tall hooped headdress with ceremonial totem decorated in same hooped style as their headdresses. (1900)
Title from accession documentation.
Inscription on typed note glued to lower part of image: "The aborigines dance and march around the totem pole, which is elaborately decorated, to the accompaniment of weird and monotonous music".
Keywords: Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Photographs; Aboriginal Australians -- Rites and ceremonies -- Photographs; Body painting -- Australia -- Photographs; Art, Aboriginal Australian -- Australia -- Photographs; Australia -- Photographs