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Title
[Drawings of Australian Aborigines and objects of material culture, ca. 1844-1864 / attributed to William Anderson Cawthorne]
Creator
W. A. Cawthorne, 1825-1897
Call number
PX*D 70
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1844-1864
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
404770
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
Drawings - 45 watercolour - 32 pencil - 6 pen drawings - 35.6 x 48.4 cm. or smaller
Scope and Content
1a. [Profile of an Aboriginal man and sailing ship]
1b. From Torrens Island - Pott's Cutter
2a. [Bush. Unfinished pencil sketch]
2b. Native from life
3a. [Male seated. Unfinished pencil sketch]
3b. Te Kartoo
4a. [Mountain crater with notes]
4b. Mount Hamilton
5. A native of the Murundee tribe. A true likeness - Named "Nulgla" alias - "Mr Bob"
6. [Portrait of a woman with verse below in pencil. / L Hop [i.e. Livingston Hopkins]
7. On the Onkapinja [i.e. Onkaparinga]
8. Native ... [?] Mode of standing & resting note net a
9. Lusus Nature Winged woman, seen by Mr. Sullivan on the Paroo River near to Mr. Vincent Dowling's station April 1864
10. [Australian Aborigines attacking hut]
11a. A native woman diseased her head face breasts are covered with whitening & grease very thick the other part of her body smeared over with yellow clay found in the river. I saw 4 of them (subjects) the net Captain Jack with native flowers stuck through his nose (4) the relatives
11b. A mourning scene Sept 1844 [with extensive notes]
12a. [Aboriginal man with verse and notes translating Aboriginal words and phrases]
12b. Goroongnabier. Apr. 1844 Very much like him [watercolour] / A young man [pencil sketch] / Wowoodteyoola / Manga [9 sketches on page]
13a-d. [Studies of an Aborigine with spear and shield]
14.Australian Black
15a. Natives (45) men, women, & children, dogs, puppies &c. [are] being driven [to] the Police Court for trespasing [i.e. trespassing] upon Private Sec. Moorunde & Rufus natives - were discharged 17/4/47 [i.e. 1847]
15b. [5 studies of a decorative object]
16a. [Aborigines fighting with weapons]
16b. [Ship in storm. Unfinished sketch]
17. [Battle between two groups of Australian Aborigines]
18. [Australian Aborigines return from hunting wildlife. Unfinished pencil sketch with notes on the reverse]
19. [Implements]
20. Boomerang [and] Cutta Wirri
21. Cutta / Wadna / Kandappi [and Aborigines with poles or spears]
22. Tantana Koo
23. "Mattamoodlo" / Witto / Kandomarngutta / Pando / Tanjalee
24. Midlah / [unidentified implement, and] / Waarpoo.
25. Shields I. "Mulubakka" No. 1 [and] No. 2 / "Wocaltee" No. 1 [and] No. 2
26. Shields 2 Mulubakka [3 examples, and] Wocaltee
27. Shields III N.1 Wocaltee / N.2 Mulubakka / Wocaltee / Wocaltee
28. Wirri [and] Mt. Barker "Wirri".
29. Yookoo - 4 ft.
30. Old native woman wearing beads (seed) head shaved - (recently) / Old woman [two portraits]
31. Moorhouse & Cawthorne exhuming a native (speared) to find cause of death
32. A fight at the Murray In the scene painting style [beneath image] Adelaide Febr. 1844 - Copied from a lithograph by that renowned artist & beautiful sketcher W.A. Cawthorne ... [with list of titles Cawthorne held in ink on the reverse]
33a. [Aboriginal ceremonial ground]
33b. "June" Thistle Island Snake Is. [3 coastal profiles]
34a. Graves of Aborigines [titled on reverse]
34b. [Trees. Unfinished sketch]
35. River Murray. Remains of Eyre's hut.
36. Natives camping
37. Natives fishing Onkaparinga S.A. [titled on reverse and on accompanying mount]
38. [Aboriginal family] / W.A.C
39. [Aborigines in canoes] / W.A.C.
40. [Aborigines preparing to go hunting] / W.A.C.
41. [Aborigines seated beneath tree] / W.A.C.
42. [Aborigines walking through scrub with spears and shields] / W.A.C.
43. [Shelters made of branches with oval-shaped contents] / W.A.C.
44. [Shooting birds on a lake]
45. [Aborigines fishing?]
46. [Two Aborigines with dead birds]
47. [Aborigine wearing cloak standing on a rock]
48. [Aboriginal family walking through scrub country]
49a. [Aborigines possibly hunting birds]
49b. Mr & Mrs Martin going to the fair
50. [Aborigines possibly holding a corroboree]
51a. [Aborigines in canoes]
51b. [Study of a male, unfinished pencil sketch]
52. [Aborigine defending himself against an attack by spears]
53. [Aborigines possibly holding a corroboree]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Many drawings have an additional image on the reverse and have been numbered a and b accordingly.
No. 10 has typescript imprinted on the reverse.
No. 11 is torn along the right-hand corner.
No. 12a has two sheets affixed to the front.
No. 13 is folded in half to make 4 sheets of paper.
No. 14 has a piece missing from the upper left-hand corner.
Nos. 21, 22, 24, 25, and 28 have a scale.
No. 24a has two additional pencil sketches affixed to the front of the sheet.
The inscription on the reverse of No. 32 is believed to be in Cawthorne's hand.
No. 37 was removed from old mount in Jul. 1991. The title has been retained.
No. 38 is drawn on cover of a Drawing Book with stamp, "E.S. Wigg Importer Adelaide"
No. 43 is damaged at corners and No. 47 is torn at both lower corners.
Digital order no:Album ID : 824113
Signatures / Inscriptions

Six drawings are initialled, "W.A.C."
Most drawings are titled.
Four drawings are dated.
Topic
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
burial grounds
campaigns & battles
canoes
colonial art
corroborees
graves
hunting
mounted police
net fishing
portraits
race relations
rites & ceremonies
rivers
shelters
shields (weapons)
trees
vessels (watercraft)
weapons
Place
Murray River (N.S.W.-S.A.)
South Australia
Exhibited in

Fish in Australian Art - Australian National Maritime Museum. Applies to: f.33a