Aboriginal people in Lismore area, 1895-1898 / photographed by Frederick Currey and William Livermore

PXD 796

fonds

1895-1898

Graphic Materials, Photographs

133021

Photographs - 2 silver gelatin printing-out paper photoprints - on mounts 24.7 x 30.5 cm.
Photographs - 1 silver gelatin photoprint - on mount 45.5 x 72 cm.
Photographs - 3 silver gelatin printing-out paper photoprints - on mount 35.5 x 16.7 cm.

1-2. [Corroboree, 1895 / William Livermore of the Star Photo Co.] See album of photographs belonging to E.C. Platt at PXA 763 (vol.1). The Clarence and Richmond Examiner, 23 Nov 1895 (p.4) gives an account of the corroboree and gives the location as Macnaughton's paddock, Maclean, N.S.W.
3-4. [Scenes representing an Aboriginal funeral dated 6.1898 and 3 small prints of Aboriginal men with spears, boomerangs and other implements, ca. 1898 / by F. C. Currey]

The photographs by F.C. Currey were taken during his tenure as teacher and supervisor of a school for Aborigines near Grafton, N.S.W. ca.1898. The scenes depicted were `staged' at the request of Currey. -- Information from donor, ML 1989/96
Three of Currey's photographs are reproduced in the supplement to the Australasian Photographic Review, 21 September 1898 (ML Q 770.5/A), including the scene representing an Aboriginal funeral.
NOTE: The image depicting an Aboriginal funeral in this collection may cause sadness and distress.

"F.C.C., 6.1898" -- no.3