M0003746: Warumungu man lying down on the ground with gash in his thigh, Australia

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Mourning custom, Warramunga man with gash in his thigh.

Reproduction of a photograph of a man from the Warumungu people in Australia. He is laying down on the ground with a self mutilated gash in thigh as part of a mourning custom, as men were expected to do this when his father-in-law died. 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. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the item contains images of deceased persons

December 1933

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

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 2021.

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