Aboriginal man holding a Ngintaka lizard |
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Title : | Aboriginal man holding a Ngintaka lizard |
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Creator : | Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976 | ||
Source : | PRG 1218/34/1060C | ||
Place Of Creation : | Central Australia | ||
Date of creation : | 1940 | ||
Format : | Photograph | ||
Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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Description : |
A Pitjantjatjara man, possibly Tjuntaga, holding a Ngintaka lizard in front of Ayers Rock (Uluru). Mountford took this photograph on the University of Adelaide expedition to Central Australia in 1940, accompanied by his wife, Bessie Mountford, and 18 year old Lauri Sheard, the son of his friend Harold Sheard. |
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Coverage year : | 1940 |
Period : | 1939-1945 |
Place : | Ayers Rock (Uluru) |
Region : | Northern Territory |
Further reading : | James, Diana. Painting the song : Kaltjiti artists of the sand dune country, Fitzroy, Vic. : McCulloch & McCulloch Australian Art Books, 2009 Sheard, Lauri. An Australian youth among desert Aborigines : journal of an expedition among the Aborigines of central Australia, with an introd. by Charles P. Mountford, Adelaide : Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 |