1999.18.20 (Print, photographic)

1999.18.20 (Print, photographic) image

Portrait perspective. Aborigine man from the waist up, with spear in his right hand, wearing a cloth tied on sides and also some sort of cloth wrapped around his neck. From his nipples to his navel he is heavily scarred with symmetric horizontal lacerations. Trees and dry grass in background, and people sitting underneath tree on left. Written on back "Aborigine, Katherine River/ Northern Territory,/Australia/ Man from whom spears and dwoomers/were acquired, 1942." Color: BK,WH