Double-sided photo board featuring the preperation of pandanus leaves.
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- Type
- Documents
- Materials
- Paper, Photographic emulsion
- Collection
- Adrian Luck collection no. 2
- Accession number
- AR00004.003
Description
A double-sided photo board. One side of the board features a colour photograph of a woman with her head bent over preparing pandanus leaves. The other side is a close-up a persons hands working with pandanus leaves.
About the collection
The Adrian Luck Collection comprises eighty objects collected between 1961 and 1973, when Mr Luck was a teacher in six Aboriginal communities: Hermannsburg, Papunya, Goulburn Island and Yirrkala in the Northern Territory and Aurukun and Lockhart River in Queensland. The collection includes boomerangs, spears, armbands, hair string, headdresses, carvings and grass skirts. Some of the objects were made within the communities where he taught, others were gifts from communities he visited. This important collection documents the interaction between a teacher and communities in the sixties and early seventies. (Film, tapes and photographs documenting Mr Luck's life in the various communities are held at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies).
Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 6:16:03 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-02-27. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.