With photos like this I always wonder if they’re accurate depictions or staged by the photographer/anthropologist?
I mean, other than having them pose for a shot, these are all real aspects of Aboriginal material culture, so I don’t imagine that there’s much staging to be done.
“Yo this stuff neat as hell. You guys you want to pose for me with these weapons real quick? I want to show the folks back home” (but said in a more racist, condescending manner, and through a translator)
“Fuck it, I’ve got a free hour or so.”
An earlier design for clothes with pockets.
Weapon vs boat paddle that the woman is holding? At first it seems like a paddle because the object is so long but the shaft is comparably short like it’s meant to be swung.
Maybe their boats are low sided and these individuals aren’t very tall. I’ll have to look into it when I have more service. Cool picture. Crazy these people have been living down there continuously for so long.
Department
Africa, Oceania and the Americas
🤣😂😭
The “Not Europe, Not Asia” category. Very precise, very exacting standards for what regions go there
You know old bean, places where all the *[redacted extremely offensive and hilariously outdated slur]*s come from.
That oar thing is a club, wouldn’t want to be hit by that.
But what’s the dinosaur tooth looking thing that the guy if holding on the right?
Looks like a shield or bracer of some sort.
Yeah its a shield.
Permission to be wrong, do not correct me. Shields made lf dinosaur teeth is bad ass as fuck. Cool people.
