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LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS HELD BY THE ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM, STOCKHOLM
WITH ANNOTATIONS BY KIM AKERMAN AND CLAES HALLGREN, 2004.

Photo Reg.
No.1

Geography2 Photographer
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Laurell
No.4

Date Contents Comment
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0085.001 Dampierland
Peninsula

EM 1912 Man chewing branch to make yellow pigment.
Tree is Grevillea pyramidalis and inner bark is
chewed to form a yellow pigment that turns
white.

Caption in
Mjöberg
1915.
Plate 209,
p. 473.
identifies
this man
as
Balingarr

0085.002 Dampierland
Peninsula

EM 1912 Two men bodypainting Balingarr
and
Lirrgirr

0085.003 Dampierland
Peninsula

EM 1912 Two men sitting, bodypainting Balingarr
and
Lirrgirr

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Registration number, Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, Sweden.

2
All photos, Kimberley, Western Australia

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Erik Mjöberg = EM; Yngve Laurell = YL

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Numbers extracted from Yngve Laurell’s Notebook A, 1910-1911.

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0085.004 Dampierland
Peninsula

EM 1912 Two men sitting, bodypainting face Balingarr
and
Lirrgirr

0085.005 Dampierland
Peninsula

EM 1912 Two men, typically bodypaintings Lirrgirr
and
Balingarr

0085.006 Dampierland
Peninsula

EM 1912 Two men, bodypainted Lirrgirr
and
Balingarr

0085.007 Dampierland
Peninsula

EM 1912 Two bodypainted men sitting at fire Lirrgirr
and
Balingarr

0086.a.002 Sunday Islands YL 1911 Landscape, Sunday Islands, Kimberley

0086.a.003 Sunday Islands YL 1911 Landscape, Sunday Islands, Kimberley.
Looking northwest along Mayurung Point with
Lirring waters to the right (KA).

0086.a.004 Sunday Islands YL 1911 Beach cliffs, Sunday Islands, Kimberley

0086.a.005 Sunday Islands YL 1911 Low tide in the harbor, Sunday Islands,
Kimberly. Lugger rests at Muri. Ngolorron
(Allora Island) in left background and
Mayurung Point at the rear right

0086.a.006 Sunday Islands YL 1911 Camp of natives

0086.a.007 Sunday Islands YL 1911 Natives sitting infront of huts

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0086.a.008 Sunday Islands
Probably Mowla
Downs

YL 8 1911
(23/11/191

0)

Natives in front of hut and sun shelter

0086.a.009 Sunday Island YL 1911 Mother and child in front of hut

0086.a.010 Sunday Island YL 1911 Woman standing in front of hut

0086.a.011 Sunday Island YL 1911 Woman standing in front of hut

0086.a.012 Sunday Island YL 1911 Schoolgirls sitting in front of hut

0086.a.013 Sunday Island YL 1911 Natives sitting by their sun shelter

0086.a.014 Sunday Island YL 1911 Woman standing by her sun shelter

0086.a.015 Sunday Island YL 1911 Natives and dogs in the camp

0086.a.016 Sunday Island YL 148 1911 Platform for keeping food.
Scaffolding of wood used as larder.

0086.a.017 Sunday Island YL 111 1911 Portrait of the Chief of the Sunday Islands
‘Kaori, the King of the Sunday Island tribe’

0086.a.018 Sunday Island YL 114 1911 Portrait of the Chief of the Sunday Islands
‘King Kaori’

0086.a.019 Sunday Island YL 93 1911 Man with decorated back.
Photograph of a back.

0086.a.020 Sunday Island YL 106 1911 Man with grass straws as nose decoration

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0086.a.021 Sunday Island YL 1911 Portrait of man

0086.a.022 Sunday Island YL 1911 Portrait of elderly man

0086.a.023 Sunday Island YL 1911 Portrait of elderly man

0086.a.024 Sunday Island YL 82 1911 Man with odd hairset.
“Paddy” dressed as a European but coiffured
a’la negro.

0086.a.025 Sunday Island YL 1911 Portrait of two women

0086.a.026 Sunday Island YL 150 1911 Woman with scar tattoos. Woman with
beautiful tatooing (=cicatrices KA)

0086.a.027 Sunday Island YL 151 1911 Woman showing back with scar

tattoos.
Same as above.

0086.a.028 Sunday Island YL 106 1911 Portrait of a woman
‘Imbibi with grass nose decoratyion’

0086.a.029 Sunday Island YL 1911 Portrait of a woman

0086.a.030 Sunday Island. YL 1911 Woman carrying child

0086.a.031 Sunday Island. YL 109 1911 Woman carrying child on her shoulders.
Woman carrying her child on her shoulders.

This is
taken at
Mowla
Bluff

0086.a.032 Sunday Island YL 1911 Two women with bark basket and fishing
spear.
(Pleated-ended bark carrying dish = ularda,

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woman’s fishing spear = jurngur - KA)

0086.a.033 Sunday Island YL 98 1911 Elderly woman and two children

0086.a.034 Sunday Island YL 1911 Children

0086.a.035 Sunday Island YL 1911 Boy child

0086a.036 Sunday Island YL 1911 Boy child

0086.a.037 Sunday Island YL 87 1911 "Maarda" practices the art of dancing.
“Maorda (Maworda), dancing for ‘lolly’
(sweets). (According to Laurell, Maworda had
already passed through the tooth avulsion
ceremony. This would put him in the initiation
class known as ‘lainyar’ –KA)

0086.a.038 Sunday Island YL 38 1911 Young boy (name = Maorda {Maworda}) with
boomerang.
(According to Laurell, Maworda had already
passed through the tooth avulsion ceremony.
This would put him in the initiation class
known as ‘lainyar’ –KA)

0086.a.039 Sunday Island YL 1911 Children

0086.a.040 Sunday Island YL 154 1911 Children. Two small boys.

0086.a.041 Sunday Island YL 155 1911 Children (profiles). Two small boys.

0086.a.042 Sunday Island YL 1911 Children

0086.a.043 Sunday Island YL 1911 Children sitting on rock

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0086.a.044 Sunday Island YL 1911 Group of children on rock

0086.a.045 Sunday Island YL 1911 Group of children

0086.a.046 Sunday Island YL 1911 Group of children (close up)

0086.a.047 Sunday Island YL 46 1911 Bodypainted men with attributes for dancing
(as thread cross).
Thread-cross ornaments are called ‘ilma’ –
the same word is used generically to mean
public narrative dances and these types of
ornaments (KA).

Reproduced in
Ethno 1940

0086.a.048 Sunday Island YL 38 1911 Man with attribute for dancing. Thread-cross
ornaments are called ‘ilma’ – the same word is
used generically to mean public narrative
dances and this type of ornaments (KA).

0086.a.049 Sunday Island YL 50 1911 Korrobboree-dance

0086.a.050 Sunday Island YL 1911 Korrobboree-dance

0086.a.051 Sunday Island YL 37 1911 Korrobboree-dance

0086.a.052 Sunday Island YL 1911 Korrobboree-dance

0086.a.052 Sunday Island YL 137 1911 Korrobboree-dance

0086.a.053 Sunday Island YL 42 1911 Children, painted for dance

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0086.a.054 Sunday Island YL 1911 Children in a row, painted for dance

0086.a.055 Sunday Island YL 126 1911 Man with boomerang and shield.
Aboriginal with shield and boomerangs.

0086.a.056 Sunday Island YL 120 1911 Man with boomerang, ready to throw.
Initial position for throwing a boomerang.

0086.a.057 Sunday Island YL 47 1911 Throwing boomerang
Boomerang battle.

0086.a.058 Sunday Island YL 133 1911 Man ready to throw spear.
Rombi throwing spear.

0086.a.059 Sunday Island YL 70 1911 Man with spears.
Spear throwing.

0086.a.060 Sunday Island YL 119 1911 Taking cover behind shield.
Illustrates how an Aboriginal protects himself
with shield.

0086.a.061 Sunday Island YL 83 1911 Man stretching material over fire for making
spear
Fishing spear straightened over the fire.

0086.a.062 Sunday Island YL 127 1911 Spearmaking man carving spear to get round.
Aboriginal making fishing spear. Note how the
carving tool is held.

See

inv.12.1.7
18ff

0086.a.063 Sunday Island YL 1911 Fishermen waiting for low tide.
Looking northwest along Mayurung Point with
Lirring waters to the right (KA).

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0086.a.063
b

Sunday Island YL 1911 Man on raft

0086.a.064 Sunday Island YL 130 1911 Fisherman carrying his catch on the fishing
spear.
Succesful fishing catch.

0086.a.065 Sunday Island YL 129 1911 Man roasting fish at the fire. Dog watching.
Kaori roasting fish over embers.

0086.a.066 Sunday Island YL 144 1911 Funeral bed in a tree.
Dead Aboriginal placed in a tree.

0086.a.067 Sunday Island YL 136 1911 Funeral bed for dead dogs.
“Dog buried”.

0086.a.068 Sunday Island YL 146 1911 School of missionary.
The mission station at Sunday Island.

0086.a.069 Sunday Island YL 1911 Outside the school of missionary

0086.a.070 Sunday Island YL 147 1911 People outside the school of missionary.
Aboriginals (all women) outside my dwelling.

0086.a.071 Sunday Island YL 1911 Teachers and pupils at the school of
missionary

0086.a.072 Sunday Island YL 1911 Group of schoolgirls at the school of
missionary

0086.a.073 Sunday Island YL 77 1911 Three schoolgirls att the school of missionary

0086.a.074 Sunday Island YL 1911 A schoolgirl at the school of missionary

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0086.a.075 Sunday Island YL 1911 A schoolgirl at the school of missionary

0086.a.081 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Rock paintings.
At the cave Wananami (also name of the large
wanjina pictured here). The young wanjina
being, Wananami, came here after being
refused Joku (termite eggs – a delicacy
restricted for the elderly) – KA.

0086.a.082 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Rock paintings.
At the cave Wananami. The young wanjina
being, Wananami, came here after being
refused Joku (termite eggs – a delicacy
restricted for the elderly) – KA.

0086.a.083 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Man

0086.a.084 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Group of men with spears and wooden
throwpieces

0086.a.085 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Group of men with spears and wooden
throwpieces

0086.a.086 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Boy with spear and wooden throwpiece

0086.a.087 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Man and woman

0086.a.088 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Group of people sitting in front af bark hut

0086.a.089 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Woman

0086.a.090 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Elderly woman

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0086.a.091 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Group of women

0086.a.092 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Scenery before korrobboree-dance

0086.a.093 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Korrobboree-dance

0086.a.094 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Korrobboree-dance

0086.a.095 Mount Barnett YL 1911 Korrobboree-dancers

0086.a.096 Mowla
Downs/Bluff

YL 15 24/11/1910 Landscape in the desert area south of Mowla
Downs

0086.a.097 Mowla
Downs/Bluff

YL 1911 Landscape in the desert area south of Mowla
Downs

0086.a.098 Mowla
Downs/Bluff

YL 1911 Four women

0086.a.099 Isdell River/Graces
Knob

YL 1911 Elderly man with bodypaintings

0086.a.100 Australia, Isdell
Downs

YL 1911 Group of men, bodypainted for dancing

0086.a.101 Australia, Isdell
Downs

YL 1911 Group of men, bodypainted for dancing

0086.a.102 Isdell River/Graces
Knob

YL 1911 Group of men, bodypainted for dancing

0086.a.103 Isdell River/Graces YL 1911 Dancers

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Knob

0086.a.104 Isdell River/Graces
Knob

YL 1911 Three men with scar tattoos

0086.a.105 Isdell River/Graces
Knob

YL 1911 Young man is getting tattooed

0086.a.106 Isdell River/Graces
Knob

YL 1911 Four women

0086.a.107 Isdell River/Graces
Knob

YL 1911 Women in front of bark hut

0086.a.108 Isdell River/Graces
Knob

YL 1911 Woman spinning rope made of her own hair

0086.a.109 Isdell River/Graces
Knob

YL 1911 Children

0086.a.110 Isdell River/Graces
Knob

YL 1911 Policemen with their wives and dogs

0086.a.111 Isdell River/Graces
Knob

YL 1911 Prisoners of the Oobagooma tribe

0086.a.112 Isdell River/Graces
Knob

YL 1911 Prisoners of the Oobagooma tribe.

0086.a.147 Mnt Alexander -
Mowla Downs

YL 1911 Two men of the Mangula tribe

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0086.a.148 Mnt Alexander -
Mowla Downs

YL 1911 Two Mangula tribe men sitting in front of their
cave

0086.a.149 Mnt Alexander -
Mowla Downs

YL 1911 Women and children of the Mangula tribe

0086.a.150 Mnt Alexander -
Mowla Downs

YL 1911 Hut of the Mangula tribe

0086.a.151 Sunday Island YL 115/116 1911 Man making fire.
Old Kisel making fire.

(Using fire-drill. KA)

0086.a.152 Sunday Island YL 117/118 1911 Man making fire with "fire-saw"
Kaori making fire. (Using fire-saw. KA)