M0012535: Man with arm cicatrization, Queensland. / M0012535EB: Man with extended ear lobes, Rubriand / M0012535EC: Man with nose pin, Northern Australia / M0012535ED: Woman with nose pin, Northern Australia.

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Cicatrization and tight arm band, Aboriginal, Australia./Previous title, replaced March 2022: Extended ear lobe, Rubriand, Solomon Islands./Previous title, replaced March 2022: Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.

Top left-hand side of plate: Photograph by H. King showing an indigenous australian man with cicatrization on his upper arm and wearing a tight arm band, taken in Queensland. Top right-hand side of plate: Photograph by H. King showing a Melanesian man with earlobe extenders and wearing a woven sun visor, taken in Rubriand, Solomon Islands. Bottom right-hand side of plate: Photograph by H. King showing an indigenous australian man wearing a nose pin, taken in Northern Australia. Bottom left-hand side of plate: Photograph by H. King showing an indigenous australian woman wearing a nose pin, taken in Northern Australia. These reproductions have been taken from unidentified sources.

May 1952

4 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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