Aborigines of Tasmania / Thomas Bock and Bishop Nixon

PXD 572/vols. 1-2

fonds

1835-1893

Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings

414130

Partly Digitised : vol. 1 only (David Scott Mitchell copy)

1 album (32 photographs) - albumen - 45 x 42 cm
1 album (31 photographs) - albumen - 45.0 x 42.5 cm

PXD 572/vol. 1. Photographic copies of sketches of 14 sketches by Thomas Bock and 17 photographs by Bishop Francis-Russell Nixon.

1. 'Jimmy' a native of the Hampshire Hills. Van Dieman's (i.e. Diemen's) Land
2. 'Woureddy' a native of the Brune Island. Van Dieman's Land
3. 'Timmy' a native of Brune Island. Van Dieman's Land
4. 'Saratong' a native of Cape Grimm. Van Dieman's Land
5. 'Fanny' a native of Port Dalrymple. Van Dieman's Land
6-7. 'Manalargenna' Chief of the Eastern Coast. Van Dieman's Land
8-9. 'Jimmy' Native of the Eastern Coast. Van Dieman's Land
10-11. 'Jimmy' Native of Port Sorell. Van Dieman's Land
12-13. 'Truggernana' Native of Recherche. Van Dieman's Land
14. 'Jack' Native of Cape Grimm. Van Dieman's Land
15. 'William Lane' The last man, 29 years old
16-17. 'William Lanne' Coal River Tribe
18. 'Lallah Rookh' or 'Trucanina'. The last woman
19. 'Lallah Rookh' or 'Trucanina'. 65 years old
20. 'Lallah Rookh' or 'Trucanina' Bruni Island Tribe
21. 'Bessie Clark' or 'Pinnabathac' (Kangaroo Head). 50 years old
23. 'Bessie Clark' or 'Pinnabathac' Macquarie Harbour Tribe
24. 'Wapperty' or Wonoteah Cootemana (Thunder and Lightning), 70 years old
25. 'Wapperty' or 'Wonoteah Cootemana'
26. 'Wapperty' or 'Wonoteah Cootemana' Ben Lomond Tribe
27-29. 'Patty' or Cooneana (the Ring-tailed Opossum). Kangaroo Tribe. No age given
30. William Lanne, Trucanini and Bessie Clark [group portrait]
31. Five pure half-castes, Cape Barren Island [group portrait]
32. Wybalena - Aboriginal Establishment Flinders Island 1845

PXD 572/vol. 2: 1-31 as above. There are some variations in spelling and layout on 'Index' page.

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

At the bottom of the index is explanatory text 'Numbers 1 to 14 inclusive are from sketches by Bock (Bock, Thomas, 1793-1855) from life in the possession of The Royal Society of Tasmania. The remainder are photographs taken from life in 1866, and the ages given are up to that date'
'Photographs by Bishop Nixon (1858) ... of Tasmanian Aborigines were re-released by Beattie after 1891' -- Tasmanian photographers 1840-1940 / Chris Long, p.14
Copy: Photographic copies of 14 sketches by Thomas Bock and 17 photographs by Bishop Nixon
COPY: Photographs of original drawings [ca1835-1840] by Thomas Bock 1890s and photographs 1866]

J.W. Beattie Photographer Hobart appears as a blind stamp at lower left of each print. 'D.S. Mitchell' signature appears opposite title page of Volume 1