Territory Stories

Spearing an Alligator

Details:

Title

Spearing an Alligator,

Photo number

PH1048/0001,

Collection

Historical Photographs 1 Collections, PictureNT, PictureNT,

Date

0000-00-00,

Description

Four Aboriginal men stand at left poised to spear a large dead crocodile at right, all standing on what looks lie a piece of timber wreckage on a beach. Albumen paper photograph laid down on original backing card. In pencil MS at upper right "14". In pen and ink MS at lower right "Spearing and Alligator. / Northern Territory. South Australia." In pencil MS at lower right "Spearing an Alligator / Northern Territory." In pencil MS on verso at upper right "68713". Josef Lebovic Gallery dates the photograph to the 1880s.,

Subject

Crocodile hunting -- Northern Territory, Aboriginal Australians,

Digital format

3153 x 5000 pixels : 48bpp ; 92.39Mb, back 111.49Mb.,

Format

1 photograph : sepia ; 13.9 x 21.7 cm.,

File type

image/tiff.,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/262237,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/483253

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/483251,