Alie decorated with white pipe clay with his daughter after pukamuni ceremony, Snake Bay, Melville Island, Northern Territory, October 1948 [picture] /

• Main Author: Poignant, Axel, 1906-1986.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1948. 1948
• Subjects: Alie > Photographs; Tiwi (Australian people) > Northern Territory > Melville Island > Portraits; Children; Aboriginal Australian > Northern Territory > Melville Island > Photogrpahs; Melville Island (N.T.) > Social life and customs > Photographs; Bathurst Island; Melville Island
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5080102

Title devised by cataloguer based on information from label on verso.; Part of the collection: Photographs of Aboriginal life and customs, including Goulburn Island South, Liverpool River, Melville Island, Bathurst Island, Milingimbi, Arnhem Land and Elcho Island districts.; "Negative no.: 1085.22"--Label on verso of print.; Inscriptions: "Snake Bay, Melville Island, Oct. 1948. Oruputuwae (Europen name Ali) with one of his children. He is decorated with white pipe clay. He has just been taking part (dancing) in one of the pukamuni ceremonies."--Label on verso; "Copyright Axel Poignant"--Stamped on verso.; Condition: Buckled.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5080102.