• Title
  [Photographs for the novel `The bride of a savage or Thirty years captivity amongst the blacks : an Australian aboriginal romance' by Chas. F. Sievwright, after 1904?]/ photographed by Henry James Edgar Staines
• Call number
  PXA 413
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1890-1900
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  52457
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 23 silver gelatin printing-out paper photoprints, 8 halftone photomechanical prints, 1 albumen photoprint - image 9 x 5.5 cm.-15 x 20.5 cm. on mounts 18.5 x 23.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. My Mirambeen
  2. Chas F Sievwright in Northern Australia amongst the sword palms
  3. Chas F Sievwright, Northern Australia, tent life and writing the story
  4-5. Specimens of the splendid physique of the native `blackfellows' ... ; ... war dance ...
  6. Northern Queensland, gin carrying picaninny
  7-8. Wild North Queensland gin ; This is a fair likeness of the young women natives of Northern Australia ...
  9. A group of native women ...
  10. Grandfather, father and son sitting under a mia mia or shelter ...
  11. Types of warriors in war paint and carrying weapons ...
  12. ... male native warriors ...
  13. Native emu hunter, North Australia
  14. Receiving a returned warrior ..
  15. Typical warriors or spearman ... ; Antilopine kangaroos
  16. The inaccessible country ; A great red kangaroo
  17. The hollow boulder, McIvor Road, Munburra (north side view) N. Australia
  18. The hollow boulder, McIvor Road, Munburra, N. Australia (south side view)
  19. A typical river of the interior in the drought regions ...
  20. On the Starckey, N. Australia
  21. Typical group of natives whose hunting grounds are in poor country ...
  22. North Queensland blacks in war paint, N. Australia
  23. North Queensland blacks (ready for the chase)
  24. North Queensland blacks as seen in the bush
  25. North Queensland blacks ready for the war path
  26. By the camp fire, blacks painting body before war, N. Australia
  27. North Queensland native police trackers escorting captured murderers
  28. A native husband and his several wives and children
  29. Dry season up the Starcke River
  30. C.F. Sievwright at Merinda near Bowden, Northern Queensland , June 1898
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright restrictions may apply
• Description source
  
  Photographer identified by Bruce R Allen, great great grandson of photographer IRN 187095 07/05/2014
• General note
  
  Two draft copies of the novel by Chas F. Sievwright are held at Location number: ML MSS 5256 Mitchell Library
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Some are titled, lower edge
  All have captions on reverse
• Name
  Sievwright, Chas F
  
• Subject
  children
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal customs
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  authors
  trackers
  
• Place
  Queensland
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE14542293

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