M0012418: Bark drawing of Warraguk

Date:: March 1952

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/111/3

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

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: M0012414-M0012528WT/D/1/20/1/111
        M0012418: Bark drawing of WarragukWT/D/1/20/1/111/3

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Scalping instruments and Arab drawing of the human figure.

Description

Photograph of a bark drawing showing Warraguk, a spirit who searches for mormo (honey), created by indigenous Australians living in Kakadu, North Australia. This reproduction was taken from Spencer, Baldwin: Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia, London: 1914. Related images: M0012419, M0012420

Publication/Creation

March 1952

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 2022.

Terms of use

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