• Title
  Item 09: Ca la watum Ba a native of the Coal River [1810-1822]
• Call number
  P2/425
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1810-1822 (dated from time Governor Macquarie, who probably once owned this drawing, was in Australia)
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  152010
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 pencil and wash drawing - 22.8 x 18.4 cm
  
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, StateLIbrary of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Lot 27 of the Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 2 Feb. 1914 sale "Catalogue of ... valuable manuscripts ... by or relating to Major-General Lachlan Macquarie" (QA 923.59/M Mitchell Library) describes "Drawings of Tippahee, a Chief of New Zealand [SV*/MAO/PORT/14]; Ca la watnin Ba, a Native of the Coal River; Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land and others of Australian Natives...". It is likely the Library acquired this drawing when it purchased this collection.
  Digital order no:a1528620
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled at lower right
• Name
  Ca la watum Ba
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  headdresses
  
• Exhibited in
  
  The Governor: Lachlan Macquarie, 1810 to 1821 - State Library of New South Wales (5 July - 10 October, 2010)
  Treasures of Newcastle from the Macquarie Era - Newcastle Region Art Gallery (February, 2013 - May, 2013)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1602059

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