File:BASEDOW Herbert 1922 Men and boys playing a game of gorri, Humbert River station, Northern Territory 1278x969.jpg
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English : Men and boys playing a game of gorri / Herbert Basedow. – Australia : Humbert River station (Northern Territory), 1922. – Black and white photograph. – (Canberra, Australia : National Museum of Australia, Dr Herbert Basedow collection ; 1985.0060.1019).
Description
This is a photograph by Herbert Basedow of three men and two boys moving toward the left of the frame. Three hold spears, ready to throw. The other two appear to have just thrown a spear. The spears are aimed at a dinner-plate-sized bark disc, which can just be seen behind the left arm of the boy on the left. Two other people observe the activity in the background.
Educational value
All over Aboriginal Australia men, youths and sometimes boys play games where they try to spear moving targets. Often the targets are round discs of bark. In the Humbert River area two sides take it in turns to spear the disc rolled in front of them. Games such as this help the younger players develop their spear-throwing skills.
Herbert Basedow was a doctor, anthropologist and explorer. From 1903 to 1928 he ventured to remote regions of central and northern Australia - places rarely seen by Australians even today. Aboriginal people often feature in his photographs. Basedow wanted to document Aboriginal cultures as they had been before British colonisation, and often went to some lengths to craft his photographs to appear as such.
This photograph was taken during an expedition to the Victoria River district south-west of Darwin in the Northern Territory, on behalf of the Mararoa Gold Mining Company.
Le fichier reproduit ici est une version retouchée de celui du National Museum of Australia. Il a été téléchargé sur Wikipedia en galicien à la page Ficheiro:Men and boys playing a game of gorri - NMA-11726.jpg.
À la date du téléchargement (23 novembre 2012), cette image était reproduite sur les pages suivantes de Wikipedia :
- en.wikipedia.org (English) : Indigenous Australians
- gl.wikipedia.org (galego) : Aborixes australianos
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| 14:58, 23 November 2012 | No thumbnail | 1,278 × 969 (376 KB) | Aetos (talk | contribs) | ---- '''English''' : ''Men and boys playing a game of gorri'' / Herbert Basedow. – Australia : Victoria River district (Northern Territory), 1922. – Black and white photograph. – (Canberra, Australia : National Museum of Australia, Dr Herbert Based |
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