Children lined up at Ernabella School, 1940

Aboriginal children in line at Ernabella School. The children are lined up in what appears to be oldest to youngest, with their billy cans placed nearby.

Charles Mountford took this photograph on the 1940 University of Adelaide Expedition to Central Australia.

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