This item is a black and white photographic print and one photographic negative. Both depict two Australian Aboriginal women sitting in the foreground with three Australian Aboriginal men and women in the background. The women in the foreground have their faces whitened with pipe ash.

Annotations on other copies of this photograph indicate the two Australian Aboriginal women in the photograph are in mourning and the photograph was taken at Wooltana Station in South Australia. The photograph was donated to the South Australian Museum collection by WB Sanders in 1953 and was allocated the photographic register number AP2187.

Other copies of this image can be found at AA 276/3/4/1, AA 276/3/6, AA 276/3/8/2 and AA 276/3/11/1.