Two Australian Aboriginal women in mourning, Ashburton, Western Australia.

Archive Collections / William Blackwood Sanders / Series AA276/2 / Two Australian Aboriginal women in mourning, Ashburton, Western Australia.

Photographic negative depicting two women with their faces whitened with ash standing over a grave. Handwritten annotations attached to a corresponding photographic print of this image (AA 276/2/1) indicate the two standing women are in mourning for an Australian Aboriginal woman who died in 1903, and the photograph was taken in the Ashburton area of Western Australia.

See also AA 276/2/1 and AA 276/2/3.

CreatorWilliam Blackwood Sanders
ControlAA 276/2/2
Date Range1902  -  1904
Quantity 0.29cm,   1   negative, 12.5x10.0cm
FormatsPhotographic Film Negatives
Series AA276/2