Series 181: Australian Aborigines

PXE 731/1746-1768

series

between 1935 and 1960

Graphic Materials, Photographs

412467

23 photographic prints - silver gelatin - 21 x 26 cm or smaller

Scenes of Australian Aborigines at traditional pursuits - corroborees, fishing and hunting and children playing and learning traditional skills. Includes shots of life on Aboriginal mission stations.

1746. Primitive art at Muogamarra, 29 miles north of Sydney. Australian aboriginal rock-carving depicts wallaby in motion
1747. Scene in the kangaroo and euro ceremony at Haasts Bluff, the wild dogs in search of the kangaroos
1748. A singing group participating in the kangaroo and euro and night owl corroboree, an initiation ritual of the Luritja tribe
1749. Decorating Komita, the Pintibi (Pintupi) leader of the totem ceremony
1750. An Aborigine elder of the MacDonnell Ranges country of Central Australia, 1968
1751. Decorated and almost ready to commence an emu and chicken corroboree
1752. After the corroboree, Komita, an old man of the Pintibi (Pintupi) tribe, poses with blood and eagles' down, the decoration for the emu ceremony, still on his body
1753. Dingo, an Australian Aboriginal hunter, at the Goss Range Rock Hole
1754. An Arunta spearman, Central Australia
1755. Arunta, Central Australia
1756. Two Aboriginal men spearing a kangaroo
1757. An Aboriginal fisherman carrying a fish
1758. Having prepared the 'bone' with suitable chants and rites, the native points it in the direction of the man he wishes to kill
1759. Three Aboriginal huntsmen
1760. Three Aboriginal fisherman with a canoe
1761. An Aboriginal family fishing in a river
1762. An Aboriginal father and son preparing to cook a flying fox bat
1763. Jacob, a newly initiated Pintibi (Pintupi) lad, with a bamboo spear, 1947
1764. Small Aboriginal children participating in mock spear fight at Aryonga in the Northern Territory
1765. Aboriginal boy on a horse
1766. Aboriginal children brought up on sheep and cattle stations in the Kimberley region of tropical Western Australia
1767. Schoolboys examine an Aboriginal display in a museum
1768. Jay Creek Mission Station

Copyright restrictions may apply:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder

Titled from accompanying envelope.

Some images on 20 x 25 cm or smaller cardboard mounts.
23 images from an original set of 53 (accompanying envelope).

'N.S.W. Education Department Visual Education Centre Library' stamped on reverse of most images. 'Australian News and Information Bureau' stamped on reverse at PXE 731/1746, PXE 731/1757, PXE 731/1762 and PXE 731/1766. Extensive captions on reverse of images.

Dates for photographs PXE 731/1750 and 1763 taken from National Archives of Australia

Reference:
National Archives of Australia, http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/ (accessed 27 January 2015)