Aboriginal Children's Portraits from Central Australia

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Aboriginal Children's Portraits from Central Australia

Friendly Aboriginal youngsters from traditional communities of Central Australia: the Ngarinman lands of the upper Victoria River, the Warlpiri community of Lajamanu, the Western Arrarnta community of Ntaria (formerly Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission) and the small communities of Ipolera, Wallace Rockhole and Red Sandhill and finally the remote Pintubi community of Walungurru or Kintore, 530 kilometres west of Alice Springs and near the Western Australian border.

Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Boy of Lajamanu
 
Ngarinman boy | Bullo |
 
Girl from Lajamanu
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Boy with little bird
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri girl | Lajamanu |
 
Red ochre boy
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri girl | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Girl from Ntaria
 
Arrarnta boy | Ntaria |
 
Arrarnta boy | Wallace Rockhole |
 
Arrarnta boy | Ntaria |
 
Warlpiri boy | Ntaria |
 
Warlpiri girl | Ntaria |
 
Arrarnta boy | Ntaria |
 
Arrarnta boy | Ntaria |
 
Arrarnta boy | Ntaria |
 
Boy from Ntaria
 
Arrarnta boy | Wallace Rockhole |
 
Girl  with an apple
 
Warlpiri boy | Lajamanu |
 
Boy from Lajamanu
 
Arrernte boy | Alice Springs |
 
Arrarnta boy | Ntaria |
 
Pintubi boy | Walungurru |
 
Pintubi boy | Walungurru |
 
Pintubi boy | Walungurru |
 
Pintubi boy | Walungurru |
 
Pintubi boy | Walungurru |
 
Arrarnta boy | Ntaria |
 
Arrarnta boy | Ntaria |
 

These portraits show the vitality and spirit of the next generation for whom traditional Law, culture and language, in spite of often traumatic contact with the outside world, is still paramount.