Photographs depicting Tiwi people in body painting and decoration for a Pukamani ceremony.
Tom Nell is a photographer based in Tiburon, California.
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Photo lot 80-14, Tom Nell photographs of Tiwi people, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Donated by Tom Nell, 1979.
Other sets of the slides have been deposited in the National Library of Australia's Institute of Aboriginal Studies and the Darwin Museum of Natural History.
Additional photographs of Tiwi people can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 97 and the Carleton Stevens Coon papers.
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