• Title:

    Familia Ona de viage

  • Description:

    Selk'nam man, woman and children wrapped in guanaco hide robes, wearing conical hats, walking through clearing in underbrush. The man and boy carry a bow and arrows

  • Culture/People:

    Selk'nam (Ona)

  • Date created:

    circa 1930

  • Photographer:

    Father Alberto Maria De Agostini, Non-Indian, 1893-1960

  • Place:

    Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego; Tierra del Fuego Province, Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region XII; Argentina, Chile

  • Format/Object name:

    postcard

  • Collection History/Provenance:

    Father Alberto María De Agostini was an Italian missionary and a dedicated mountaineer, explorer, geographer, ethnographer, photographer and cinematographer; his missionary work was based in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. This and other images of Father De Agostini's were published as postcards, probably during the 1930s. No other collection history information available.

  • Dimensions:

    3.25 x 5 in.

  • Catalog number:

    P17185

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