M0008706: A stone containing spirit-children.

Date:: 1942

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/76/15

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0008692-M0008787WT/D/1/20/1/76
        M0008706: A stone containing spirit-children.WT/D/1/20/1/76/15

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: A stone containing spirit-children.

Description

Photograph of an Aboriginal Australian woman kneeling by a stone believed to contain the spirit of children. By visiting the stone a woman would become pregnant. The photograph was published in Hutchinson, Walter: Customs of the world : a popular account of the manners, rites and ceremonies of men and women in all countries, London: Hutchinson, 1913

Publication/Creation

1942

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 2020.

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