Untitled (Max Mansell plucking mutton birds)

Photographer Ricky Maynard (1953)

Date1985

Object number00018069

NamePhotograph

Mediumsilver gelatin print, fibre based paper

DimensionsDisplay dimensions: 43.5 x 59 mm
Image: 19.2 x 30.1 mm

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineANMM Collection

Terms

DescriptionThis photograph was taken by photographer Ricky Maynard in 1985. Ricky Maynard is a documentary photographer and for generations his family have returned each year in March to the islands of Bass Strait to catch mutton birds and prepare them for sale. The Australian National Maritime Museum approached Ricky Mayanrd to chronicle the traditional practice of mutton birding by the Aborginal people of Bass Strait Tasmania. These photographs were taken in the Coorong area, Murray Lakes Region, South Australia, where mutton birding also takes place by the Ngarrindjeri People. The resulting series of black and white photographs became known as The Moonbird People. The photographs in the Australian Maritime Museum's Collection were chosen by Ricky because they show the different aspects to work and the different people in their tasks. Ricky has shown each person in their own landscape.