Aboriginal Collection

Portrait of an Aboriginal man, named Bennelong
Drawing 41 from the Watling Collection titled Native name Ben-nel-long, as painted when angry after Botany Bay Colebee was wounded by Port Jackson Painter, c. 1790

Truganini, last surviving female Tasmanian Aboiginal
Truganini (Truganina, Trugernanner or Lalla Rooke, c1812-1876), the last surviving Tasmanian Aboiginal or Palawa woman. 1866

Portrait of an Aboriginal woman named Abbarroo, decorated fo
Drawing 45 from the Watling Collection titled Abbarroo a moobee after Balloderrees funeral by Port Jackson Painter, c. 1791

Pomfret illustration
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Affray of rival Aboriginal tribes, three miles from Brisbane in New South Wales, Australia. The Illustrated London News notes with undisguised disgust

Fern Tree Valley, near Hobart, Tasmania
View of Fern Tree Valley near Hobart, Tasmania, showing a river and waterfall in a tropical landscape. 1870

Aboriginal medicine man of the Worgaia, Central Australia. Date: 1922

Western Australia - Aborigine Elders ready for a Corroboree
Western Australia, Australia - Five Australian Aborigine Elders ready for a Corroboree (an an Australian Aboriginal dance ceremony which may take the form of a sacred ritual or an informal gathering)

Aboriginal woman smoking a pipe, Australia, c. 1890
Aboriginal woman smoking a pipe, Australia, c.1890

Aboriginal Warramunga man, Northern Territory, Australia
Aboriginal Warramunga (Warumungu) man, Northern Territory, Australia. Seen here in profile, with his nostrils broken under the weight of a large wooden spike. Date: 1922

Aboriginal men and woman, Brisbane area, Australia
Two aboriginal men and one woman in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia. They have their names on brass plates around their necks. Date: 1922

Australia Samsans ladies Victorian period Victorian period

Australian Aerial Services, Camooweal to Daly Waters, Australia, pilot Captain Frank Neale with Aboriginal boys and Shell petrol cans - real photograph Feb 1930 Date: 1930

Head of a Gin
A portrait etching of an aboriginal woman, offensively labelled as a Gin, she is wearing a headband and smoking a pipe. Date: circa 1925

The Australian Aboriginal Photo
A photograph from The Australian Aboriginal, showing a man kneeling, possibly in worship, beside a patterned design on the floor beside him. Date: circa 1925

Aboriginal Shield Design
This design was adapted from a shield in Cairns, north Queensland, representing a section of a continuous design for borders to hanging shades, curtains, cushions etc. Date: circa 1925

Aboriginal Basket Design
A simple aboriginal basket design used by natives of Rockingham, North Queensland. Date: circa 1925

Central Australian Shield Design
An aboriginal design for a shield from central Australia, suitable for application to cushions. Date: circa 1925

Pikan Shield Design
A design taken from a Pikan shield, an aboriginal work, from Russell River, North Queensland. This design would be suitable for a mat, chair or sofa cover. Date: circa 1925

Gika-Gika Pottery
A painting showing a presentation of Gika-Gika pottery, including a pot inlaid with aboriginal design, pot with opalescent glaze over coloured body and pastoral design

Stockman's hut in Australia with aboriginal man
Stockman's hut in Australia with two white men and an aboriginal man. Date: 1850s

ABORIGINAL SEPULCHRE 19C
A native sepulchre, or aboriginal mode of burial. Date: circa 1850

Aboriginal canoe-men Date: circa 1860

Aboriginal children 1914
Aboriginal children in a mission school at Mitchell River, north-west Australia. Date: 1914

Kola Dancers. India
Vintage 19th century photograph: Kola tribal dancers, Munda-speaking peoples, NE India

Two aboriginal men, named Garicha and Boyguda, of Cape York, Australia, who were brought to Britain in 1853 after accidentally remaining on board Captain Stricklands ship

Scene showing Aborigines of Victoria, to accompany given in The Illustrated London News, which describes the native Australians sometimes visiting towns dressed in a mix of cast-off European style

Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the indigenous people of Australia Felix, Port Phillip, in New South Wales

Portrait of one of two aboriginal boys brought to England, and to meet Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, by Mr Eyre, the Australian traveller. Date: 1846

Australian aboriginal with a shield used as percussion instrument during a corroboree dance. Musician of New Holland. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature

Australian aboriginal dancing at a corroboree. Body painted with pipe clay and red ochre. Native of New South Wales dancing

Australian aboriginal with club. Native of the East Coast of New Holland (Port Jackson, Sydney, Australia). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a sketch by Jacques Arago from Frederic Shoberls

Head of an Australian aboriginal. Man of New Holland. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberls The World in Miniature: The Asiatic Islands and New Holland, R. Ackermann, London, 1824

Australian Aboriginal with termite anthills. 19th century

Aboriginal Karundi warrior, Queensland, Australia
Aboriginal Karundi warrior of Queensland, Australia. Date: 1922

Aboriginal woman, Southern Queensland, Australia
Aboriginal woman of Southern Queensland, Australia, seen here with parasol at a railway station on the Brisbane line. 1922

An Aboriginal climbs a tree Date: circa 1900

Burning the dead
Cremation - Funeral rites and ceremonies. From book: The history of New South Wales Date: 1802

An Artesian Bore - New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1903

Surveyors for the Trans-Australian Railway meet Aboriginals
Aboriginal Tribesmen met by Surveyors for the Trans-Australian Railway. The railway ran from port Augusta in the East to Kalgoorlie in the West. Date: 1914

Aboriginal initiation ceremony involving tooth-avulsion called Yoo-lahng erah-ba-diahng in New South Wales. From: An account of the English colony in New South Wales Date: 1798

Australian Aborigines hunting Kangaroo with boomerangs
Australian Aboriginals hunting Kangaroo with boomerangs and young Aboriginal children swinging on ropes tied to a tree. Date: circa 1903

William Lanne, last surviving male Tasmanian aborigine
William Lanne (c1835-1869), also known as King Billy or William Laney, the last surviving full-blooded male Tasmanian aborigine. 1866

Indigenous Selk nam Indian, Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile
Indigenous Selk nam Indian of Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena, Chile - toward the southernmost point on the South American mainland

Indigenous Selk nam Indians, Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile
Indigenous Selk nam Indian Woman of Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena, Chile - toward the southernmost point on the South American mainland, pictured with her laden horse

Ainu Couple - Japan
The Ainu (also called Aynu, Aino and in historical texts Ezo) - indigenous people or groups in Japan (Hokkaido) and Russia (Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands). Ainu men often wear heavy beards

Australian Aboriginal Girl and wild flowers Date: circa 1903

Drawing 25 from the Watling Collection
25. Mr White, Harris & Laing visiting Botany Bay Colebee

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