• Title
  Oswald W.B. Brierly - Journal of a visit to Twofold Bay, Maneroo, and Districts beyond the Snowy River, Dec. 1842 to Jan. 1843
• Call number
  A 535
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1842-1843
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  423944
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 868 (A 535)
  
• Physical Description
  Textual Records - (manuscript) 1 volume - 0.02 Meters
  Drawings - 27 pencil - ink - watercolour drawings - 23 x 31.6 or smaller
  
• Scope and Content
  JOURNAL
  17 Jan. 1843; Brierly introduces volume with note about account of his trips, his thoughts on bush life, natives, and sketches.
  13 Dec. 1842 - 4 Jan. 1843; Journal traces Brierly's passage on board steamer headed for Hobart Town, and his arrival at Twofold Bay, with emphasis on his subsequent excursions to the Snowy Mountains region. Topics include vegetation, wildlife, weather conditions, and Indigenous people encountered. Accompanying the journal entries are drawings with descriptions.
  [General notes]
  The Talopea Speciosifsima - Waratah or native tulip - Doryanthes Excellsa.
  The Leaving Party[?]
  "Wondona" Devil. "Xantharreu" or Grass Tree [notes on its use for weapon and implement making]
  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS [with original pagination]
  1. Sydney Heads
  2. Mt. Dromidary
  3a. Entrance to Twofold Bay
  3b. [Camp] Decr. 15
  5. [Tent at Mt. Imlay]
  7. Beach Nullica
  10a. The deserted villiage [i.e. village. Handwritten in pencil]. Native huts seen from the S.W. built to protect from N.E. Breeze - 3 ft. from ground in centre [handwritten in ink]
  10b. Gigantic Fern at "Oman", Twofold Bay
  11. James Imlay King of the Tribe and Admiral of the Fleet at Twofold Bay
  16a-b. Natives Twofold Bay
  19. Kiar River
  20. [Bark Gunya] Mount Gingo. Halt for the Night
  21. An Exploring Breakfast. [Mode of cooking bronze wings cockatoos & c.]
  22. Source of the Kiah / O.W.B.
  24. The Roman Camp
  25-26. The Snowy River
  29-30. The Snowy Mountains from the Plains of Maneroo
  32. Extraordinary granite rocks near the Snowy River
  38-39. "Croses Plain" Looking W.N.W. Snowy Mountains 28th Decr. 1843
  39b. [Mountains]
  47. [C]amp at the Murderers Range. Plains of Maneroo. New Years Morning 1843 [in ink]. A real Gun-ya [handwritten in pencil]
  51. [Platypus]
  53. Place where a cannibal feast had been held. At the foot of the Mountain Range near Tana-lo-angle
  54. Water hole, mosquitos plentiful. Halt between Candalo & Pampoola
  58b. [reverse of page 58] Crossing the Yowaka
  60. Quakers Lodge. The first house erected at Boyd. Progress of the Camp at Nullica Twofold Bay
• General note
  
  The volume contains two numbering sequences. The "List of Illustrations" that appears on the reverse of the front endpaper cites drawing number and original pagination. The titles in this list sometimes differ from captions beneath individual drawings.
  Three drawings are executed over two double pages.
  Pages bear watermark, "Superfine 183[7?]".
  Some pages are blank.
  The volume was bound into new covers at an unknown date. Page 1a is not original and bears a non-contemporaneous label, auction tag "20", and a State Library of NSW call number label.
  "D.S. Mitchell" signature on front endpaper.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824070
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from inscription on page 3a.
  Handwritten on original front cover, "Maneroo 1842-3".
  A non-contemporaneous label with inscription, "Twofold Bay, Maneroo, and Snowy River with Sketchings. O.W. Brierly 1842/ 1843", is on page 1a.
  Embossed on spine, "Brierly - Journal of Visit to Twofold Bay - Dec. 1842 to Jan. 1843".
  Most drawings are titled.
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--History.
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  New South Wales--Description and travel--To 1850.
  Snowy Mountains Region (N.S.W.)--History.
  Aboriginal Australians.
  
• Topic
  bark huts & houses
  camps
  rivers
  
• Place
  Boydtown (N.S.W.)
  Monaro Region (N.S.W.)
  Snowy River (N.S.W.)
  Twofold Bay (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly - State Library of New South Wales (18 October, 2004 - 6 February, 2005). Applies to: pp.21, 22
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3191123

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