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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
Exhibited in

Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries - State Library of New South Wales (October 2023 - October 2024)
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