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2253 Aboriginal tribal elder and ceremonial headman () / Australia
2254 Wagaitj lad with fishering spear () / Australia
2255 Aboriginal types () / Australia
2257 Arnhem Lander () / Australia, Arnhem Land
2258 Paddling a dugout canoe. Saild rolled up. North Coast () / Australia
2259 North-east Arnhem-Lander with Malay-type pipe () / Australia, Arnhem Land
2260 Mother and child. Bathurst Island () / Australia, Bathurst Island
2261 Camp life, Musgrave Ranges. North-Western South Australia () / Australia, South Australia, Musgrave Ranges
2262 Making spear-point by pressure-flaking, string made of fibre or baobab root. Northern Kimberley -- Native hut built of saplings, grass and mud. North Eastern South Australia () / Australia, Northern Kimberley & North-Western South Australia
2264 A family, Bathurst Island -- Mand and two wives with bark "carry-alls". Northern Kimberley () / Australia, Bathurst Island, Northern Kimberley
2265 Group decorated for teh circumcision ceremonies. Sunday Isalnd. North Western Australia (The novice's guardian is on his right) -- Two lads excluded from camp during the period of initiation. Central Australia () / Australia, Sunday Island & Central Australia
2266 Historical ceremony, kangaroo totem, Musgrave Ranges. North-Western South Australia -- Singing about the mythological heroes. Secret engraved boards symbolize their activities. Lagrange district, North-Western Australia () / Australia, South Australia, Musgrave Ranges & Lagrange disctrict, North Western Australia
2267 Secret increase site, Mosquito totem. Yantruwanta Tribe. South-Western Queensland -- Preparing for the Molonga ceremony at Horeshoe bend. Central Australia (This ceremony spread from Western Queensland to the Bight and also around Lake Eyre to Centra () / Australia, Queensland & Horseshoe bend, Central Australia
2268 Rock shelter painting associated with the clan hero, the increase of natural species, and with "burial". Northern Kimberley -- Bark-painting. Songman and didjeridu player. Western Arnhem Land () / Australia, Northern Kimberley & Western Arnhem Land
2269 Carved wooden figures of mythological persons. North-Eastern Arnhem Land () / Australia, Arnhem Land (north-eastern)
2270 Bark-painting: Macassan Prahu. North-eastern Arnhem Land () / Australia, Arnhem Land (north-eastern)
2271 Scenes from peace-making ceremony. Points removed from spears. North-eastern Arnhem Land () / Australia, Arnhem Land (north-eastern)
2272 Watchers at burial mound. Men will sing the songs of deceased's ceremonial totem. North-Eastern South Australia -- Tree-stage burial. North Western Australia (Inquest-stones underneath) () / Australia, South Australia (north-eastern) & North-Western Australia
2273 Bone-pointing, Central Australia -- Painting-up in pipe-clay: Initiation ritual. Southern Arnhem Land () / Australia, Central Australia & Arnhem Land (southern)
2274 Preparing coffin for bones. Goulburn Island () / Australia, Goulburn Island
2275 Mission girls "dancing" at burial ritual, Goulburn Island -- Basket-making on a mission: A native craft () / Australia, Goulburn Island
2276 Missionary addressing Bathurst Islanders -- The Anthropologist learns. Far North-eastern Arnhem Land () / Australia, Bathurst Island & Arnhem Land (noth-eastern)
2277 Facing the future () / Australia