• Title
  Tasmanian Aborigines, 1866 / photographed by Charles Alfred Woolley
• Creator
  Charles Alfred Woolley, 1834-1922
• Call number
  PXB 435
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1866
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442867
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 15 albumen photoprints, cardboard mounted - 14 x 11 cm. or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  1-3. William Lanney, 26 yrs old. Coal River Tribe
  4-6. Patty or Cooneana (Ringtailed opossum), female, 60 yrs old. Kangaroo Point Tribe
  7-9. [Wapperty?] or [Wonoteah Cortamena?] (Human [& Lightning?]), female of the Benlomona Tribe, 70 yrs old
  10-12. Lallah Rookh or Truganini (Seaweed), female, 65 yrs old, Bruni Island Tribe
  13-15. Bessy Clarke or Pinnanobathae (Kangaroo Head), 50 yrs old, female of the Macquarie Harbour Tribe
• System of arrangement
  Photographer took 3 shots of each individual. These groupings by individual are preserved. Each series of 3 had a running number & the order is preserved but single images are renumbered uniquely
• Related Material
  Portrait of William Lanney, 189- / Beattie photomechanical copy of 1866 Charles Woolley original (938157)
• General note
  
  Titled on reverse
  In August 1866 Charles Woolley took a series of excellent head-and-shoulder portraits of the surviving Tasmanian Aborigines, which were later re-printed by J W Beattie. Source: Tasmanian Photographers 1840-1940: a directory / Chris Long. Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, 1995
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823436
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Tasmanian Aborigines -- handwritten in ink at upper edge
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  portraits
  Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples
  
• Place
  Tasmania
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3316309

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