Territory Stories

Young boys from Nauiyu on a crocodile

Details:

Title

Young boys from Nauiyu on a crocodile,

Other title

Darren Clark,

Photographer

Clark, Darren,

Photo number

PH0875/0003,

Collection

Darren Clark Collection., PictureNT, PictureNT,

Date

2010-07-26,

Location

Daly River,

Description

One afternoon whilst down at the Daly River crossing, I was making portraits of the local kids from the Nauiyu Community swimming in the water. To our astonishment, a crocodile of about 7ft crawled up onto the bank and expired directly in front of us. It was later discovered that the crocodile had died from consuming a Cane toad. This event was the talk of the town and from 6pm until dark, every child in the vicinity was eager to have their picture taken, astride the back of the crocodile. The corpse remained on the riverbank over night and was removed by a local Indigenous police officer early the next morning. It was hung in a tree behind the police station so as to be able to rot down to a perfectly intact skeleton; this was to be later used for educational purposes at the local primary school.,

Subject

crocodiles, Aboriginal peoples (Australians),

Digital format

300dpi ; 36.16Mb.,

Format

1 photograph : digital, col.,

File type

image/tiff.,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Library & Archives NT,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/226792,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/226792

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/678197,