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These must be the participants of the 1929 Women´s Air Derby.

From left to right: Louise Thaden, Bobbi Trout, Patty Willis, Marvel Crosson, Blanche Noyes, Vera Dawn Walker, Amelia Earhart, Marjorie Crawford, Ruth Elder, Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes. Here's a link to contemporaneous British Pathe / Gaumont newsreel footage of this event: YouTube: British Pathé: TRANSPORT: Aviation: Female pilots (1929) From the linked newsreel footage, we can also see the registration on the rudder of the aircraft, [NC]229K. NC229K was a deHavilland DH.60 Gipsy Moth (c/n 41).

the Ninety-Nines club

Aviatrix (and actress!) Ruth Elder next to the ahead-of-its-time Chrysler Airflow.
See:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Elder
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Airflow

I would guess its a 1934 Chrysler Airflow

obviously before introduction of air con

Aboriginal breastplates (also called king plates or aboriginal gorgets) were a form of regalia used in pre-Federation Australia by white colonial authorities to recognise those they perceived to be local Aboriginal leaders. The breastplates were usually metallic crescent-shaped plaques worn around the neck by wearer. Aboriginal people did not traditionally have kings or chiefs. They lived in small clan groups with several elders—certain older men and women—who consulted with each other on decisions for the group. By appointing kings of tribes, and granting them king plates, the white colonial powers went against the more collegiate grain of traditional Aboriginal culture. In the 19th century, king plates were given by numerous communities in various Australian States to esteemed Aboriginal men and women, who were usually elders of their particular tribal or kinship group. The plates were presented to perceived 'chiefs', courageous men and to faithful servants.[1] There have been suggestions that the presentation of breastplates also had a great deal to do with whether or not the recipient was seen as useful or respected by the white Australian community of the area in question. While some Aboriginal people wore their breastplates with pride, others saw them as yet another insult to their culture from the white European settlers.[2] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_breastplate

wow

Muy buena.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Masterpieces of Portrait Art, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called American Ethnography, and we'd love to have this added to the group!