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16938
  • Title
    [Photographs of Cubagee]
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXE 724/24-29
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    ca. 1887
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    16938
  • Physical Description
    Photographs - 5 albumen photoprints - 1 typescript leaf - 20 x 13.2 cm.-31 x 24.5 cm.
  • Scope and Content
    25-27. Cubagee - Aboriginal dress
    28-29. Cubagee - European dress
  • General note

    " ... photographs of an Aboriginal boy whom I brought from the interior of the Continent some months ago. His name is `Cubagee'. He is the second son of Tapanunga, King of the Warramunga tribe, Djungrooargool district which is in Latitude 19 and 20 Longtitude 133 degrees and 134 degrees E.
    He is 17 years old - six feet five and a half inches high and weighs twelve stone seven pounds. " -- David Lindsay
    Transfer from the Manuscripts Section (David Lindsay papers, ca. 1878-1919, 1924). Location number: ML MSS 200 Mitchell Library
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