• Title
  [Views of a corroboree and a battle]
• Creator
  Tommy McRae, 1830s-1901
• Call number
  DG SSV/2
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1864
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  446923
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 ink sketch - 20.5 x 32.9 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Tommy McRae spent most of his life in the upper Murray region of New South Wales and Victoria, and may have belonged to the Kwatkwat people of that area. He was known variously as Tommy McCrae, Tommy Barnes, and Yakaduna. McRae began sketching in the 1860s, traditional Aboriginal life and the presence of European pastoralists forming his principal subject matter. He gained recognition during his lifetime and sold many of his works. For further information see: Aboriginal artists of the nineteenth century / Andrew Sayers. Melb.: Oxford University Press in association with the National Gallery of Australia, 1996; Dictionary of Australian artists : painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 / Joan Kerr (ed.). Melb. : Oxford University Press, 1992
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Galleries, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Untitled
  Many of McRae's drawings have nineteenth-century annotations by Europeans
  Conserved Sept 1983
  Digital order no:a128993
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "[monogram]/13th/1/65" -- at upper right
  "Yakaduna fecit" -- at lower left
  "This sketch represents a corroboree. The gins are sitting beating time, they are assisted by an old fellow Standing to lead the band. Those with bushes tied around their legs are Goulburn blacks. Fishing with spears is represented also a man climbing a tree after an opossum Barnawartha Upper Murray Victoria Aug - 1864" -- inscribed on reverse
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal art
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  campaigns & battles
  corroborees
  graziers
  hunting
  spearfishing
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Aboriginal Artists of the 19th Century - National Gallery of Australia (15 October, 1994 - 18 July, 1995)
  Sweet damper and gossip: colonial sightings from the Goulburn and North-East - Benalla Art Gallery (December, 1993 - June, 1994)

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