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Title
[Oswald W.B. Brierly : New Guinea coast and Cape York area during the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, ca. 1849-1850]
Creator
Oswald W. B. (Oswald Walters B.) Brierly, 1817-1894
Call number
PX*D 82
Level of description
item
Date

1849-1850
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings
Reference code
421776
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
Drawings - 126 drawings (pencil - watercolour) - 40 cm. x 74 cm. or smaller
Scope and Content
The sketches are of places visited by the H.M.S. Rattlesnake including Albany, Cape York, Cul de Sac de L'Orangerie, Darnely, Dufaure and Prince of Wales' Islands, and the coast of New Guinea. The drawings feature objects of Indigenous material culture such as carvings, implements, and personal ornamentation, as well as aspects of Indigenous knowledge systems, modes of food production, and the construction of canoes and dwellings
1. New Guinea - Telescopic view of Native Village [with colour notes]
2a. [Sailing ships]
2b. New Guinea. H.M.S. Rattlesnake August 16 1849. Waves - effect of squall first striking water Coast of New Guinea [Coastal profile and mountainous landscape with compass positions and notes]
2c. [Native canoes with commentary]
3a. Bruinie Islands August 20th 1849 [Outrigger Canoe]
3b. 3 PM with Moore? Canoe, Rossell Island August 20 1849
4. Canoe from Manin Land of New Guinea Buinie Island 21 August 1849
5a. Bow [text amended to "Stern"] of Catamaran Bruinui Island New Guinea 21 Augt. 1849 [with notes]
5b. Line of Catamaran [reverse of 5a]
6a. Tuesday 21 August 1849 Bruinie Island New Guinea [native canoes with descriptive notes]
6b. Native Villiage [i.e. village] Bruinie Island
7. Issai Name of Villiage [i.e. village] Sou West Point Bruinie I.
8a. Bow [text corrected to "stern"] of Catamaran - Bruinie Island 21 Augt 1849 [with notes]
8b. Small canoe - Bruinui Isd. 20 Augt. 1849
9a. Catamaran - Bruinie Island [with notes]
9b. August 21 1849 Bruinie Island - New Guinea [outrigger canoes and natives]
10a. Bruinie Island Thursday 22nd August 1849 [Study of female native with tattoos, canoe, and pole of canoe]
10b. [Canoe - unfinished sketch]
11a. Canoe of [ord?] construction with the Rossel Island sail .... 10 pm 23rd August Thursday [with notes]
11b. [Native men in canoes. Unfinished sketch with notes]
12a. Paddle of Bruinie Island August 26 1849 [details of paddles and sketch of natives in canoe]
12b. [Ship. Unfinished sketch]
13. S E Coast New Guinea - from Bruinie Island. Tissot
14. Canoe Heads Co New Guinea. Bailer. Fish Spear - Bruinie Island [and native canoe]
15. Dufaure Island Cul de Sac del'Orangerie 6th Sep 1849
16. Dufaure Island N- Western Extreme 6th Sep 1849 [landscape and natives in canoe with notes]
17. Western side Dufaure Island 6th Septr 1849 [with extensive notes]
18. The Invitation 9 am Sep 7 1849 - Cul de Sac del' Orangerie New Guinea (haze of sunshine over the land) [with notes]
19a. Cul de Sac del'Orangerie Septr 7 1849 [canoes with notes]
19b. [Vessel at sea]
20. Cul de Sac del'Orangerie Sep 7th 1849
21. 8 Sepr 1849 Cul de Sac del'Orangerie Coast New Guinea. New Guinea Native Canoes &c [native profiles and canoe studies with notes]
22. Cul de Sac del'Orangerie Coast New Guinea Sep 8 1849 [canoe &] Woman of Dufaure I Co New Guinea
23. Dufaure Island Native Cul de Sac del'Orangerie Coast New Guinea - H.M.S. Rattlesnake Sep 10- 1849 [with notes on reverse]
24. Natives Main Land New Guinea [with notes]
25. Albany Island October 11th 1849. Planting of cocoanuts [native words]
26a. [Dwelling with notes]
26b. October 11 1849 [landscape with figure and trees]
26c. [Figure. Unfinished sketch]
26d. [Figures and ship]
27. Native Canoe Evans Bay Cape York - Sunday 14 Oct 1849
28. Braun Canoe from Morolay P.W. Is. Evans Bay Cape York 31 Oct 1849
29. Evans Bay Cape York 31st Oct. 1849 [canoes with native names]
30a. .... Bay Cape York 31 Oct 1849 [Canoes]
30b. [Ocean with vessel. Unfinished sketch]
31a. Nov. 3rd 1849 Uzzannah P.W. [i.e. Prince Wales] Island Canoe Ubie Chief [with notes]
31b. P.W. Island 2nd Nov. 1849 "Moodtha" [dwelling]
32. Evans Bay Cape York Nov. 5 1849 Prince Wales Island Canoe [with notes]
33. Evans Bay Cape York Nov 21 1849 "Acarreenya"
34. "Mungo" G- Kokenyan (Lag) 1 Dec 1849. Ant Hills at Cape York....
35. Cape York [canoe in foreground]
36. Small Canoe from Sue Island Decr. 7 1849 [with native names]
37. Canoe from Stevens Island .... Dec 10 1849 [with notes]
38a. Mog-gore "Exroob" Darnley Island 12 Decr 1849
38b. [Natives with canoe. Unfinished sketch]
39a. Kirriam 13 Decr 1849. Cape York Browan
39b. 2nd Nov. 1849 [Canoe and landscape. Unfinished sketch]
40. Landing and Barter with Natives Darnley Island .... Kerrian Darnley I 13 Dec 1849 [with text on reverse]
41. Janry 8th 1850 Du Chateau Islands [canoes with native names. Text on the reverse]
42. [Natives with canoe and food. Sketch has extensive notes]
43. [Study of native man wearing ornaments and notes]
44. "Tassii" [Studies of women]
45. They raise the paddle .... [unfinished studies]
46a. [Unfinished sketch of an island. Native language notes]
46b. [Fish]
47. [Native dwelling. "Large log in middle", with notes]
48a. Houses at Iasoi [with notes];
48b. [Six figures in a canoe with notes]
49. Mode of preparing corpses for [interment?]
50. [Studies of native woman with notes]
51. Marcoy off .... [native woman]
52. Du-u-mah Pocatchie. Garra Canoe [with notes]
53. Small canoe 3 natives [with notes]
54a. No.1 1st Canoe past ship .... [studies of canoes and sails]
54b. [Sailing ship and cloud study. Unfinished sketches]
55. [Outrigger canoe with notes]
56. [Canoe studies] 1 pm 2 Nov [with extensive notes]
57-58b. [Studies of canoes]
59. Bow End of outrigger [and sketches of carvings on canoes. Notes with sketches and on reverse of image]
60. Platform and project? poles warm raw .... [canoe with notes]
61a. Kalmonua Kikma? [Canoe - unfinished sketch]
61b. [Vessel with landscape]
62-63. [Outrigger canoes. No.63 has poles, platform, and sail with explanatory notes]
64. [Man standing in a canoe. Unfinished sketch]
65. [Ships with text "gun"]
66a-66b. [Canoes with notes]
67. Mode of [transport. Studies of canoes]
68a. Moonly of the men ... [canoe and oranments with notes]
68b. [Landscape - unifinished sketch]
69. [Canoe with black band and serpent decoration]
70a-71b. [Studies of canoes]
72a. [Lowa or Lona Canoe]
72b. [Study of canoe poles]
73. [Men with paddles in canoe]
74a. [Canoe with 4 figures]
74b. Projection of stern made by .... [2 canoe hulls]
75. Sail exact lengths platform ....
76a. [Native battle in canoes]
76b. [Vessel with figures, one man holding gun. Unfinished sketch]
77. Attack [Battle with natives, landscape and ship in background]
78. [Natives in canoes in battle?]
79. [Sailing ship with canoes. Detail of native with markings]
80a. Natives in the reef outsider canoe .... [Sailing ship and natives in canoes with notes]
80b. Point Barrow Cape Bowen & Noble Island [with notes]
80c. Natives off Point Barrow
80d. [Sailing ship]
81. Black. 98th [Canoe with 3 figures]
82. Louisiades. 1PM Left Bramble in .... [coast profiles with ships]
83. [Canoes near the Bramble. Notes on reverse]
84. [Men at table with native onboard Rattlesnake]
85. [Vegetation with notes on front and reverse]
86. [Seascape with land and clouds. Watercolour]
87. Flat top hill. S.W. .... [with notes]
88a-88b. [Sailing vessels]
89. S W 1/2 W [Mountain with ship in foreground]
90-91a. [Landscapes]
91b. When near the Island it lose it[s] Pyramid .... [landscape]
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
General note

Bruinie Island [i.e. Brunai Island], later known as Mbrunai Island or Mbuke Island, Papua New Guinea, is part of the Admiralty Island Group.
References:
Hydrographic Charts at ML Ref. M Charts G 922.7/2 (1922) and M Charts G 922.7/4 (1934)
United States Board on Geographic Names. Gazetteer ; no. 29 Southwest Pacific : official standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names / prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1956 (ML Q 980/9 A1)
The sketches have detailed remarks about nautical direction, weather conditions, events, and colours. Some text appears in an indigenous language recorded with the English equivalent.
Some sheets are folded in half.
In cases where sketches have an additional drawing on the reverse, the letters a & b (plus c & d where sheets are four-sided) have been allocated.
Many drawings have a paper label with an auction number on the reverse.
The sheet with drawing Nos. 2a-2c is folded in half and has 3 sketches.
The paper used for sketches Nos. 4, 5, 10, 11, 52, 78 bear watermark, "Moinier's Patent 1848".
No.23 is drawn on cardboard.
No.30 has a piece missing from the lower left-hand corner.
Sketch No. 38b appears to be an earlier version of No.40.
Nos. 38 & 47 are torn.
Digital order no:Album ID : 824026
Signatures / Inscriptions

Most drawings are titled and dated
Name
Rattlesnake (Ship)
Subject
David Scott Mitchell Collection.
Topic
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
ant hills
canoes
cultural identities
cultural objects (manufactured)
Pacific Islanders
seascapes (artwork)
vessels (watercraft)
Place
Louisiade Archipelago (Papua New Guinea)
New Guinea
Exhibited in

Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly - State Library of New South Wales (18 October, 2004 - 6 February, 2005). Applies to: ff. 22,23,40