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441547
  • Title
    Australian Aboriginals / photographed by Kerry & Co.
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PX*D 398
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1890-1898
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    441547
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    1 album (150 photoprints) - albumen - 41 x 28 cm
  • Scope and Content
    1-2. Corroboree or tribal dance
    3. Group warriors with spears
    4-5. Corroboree
    6. Mia-mia, or Aboriginal house, Richmond River
    7. Group of Mia-mias, Interior of N.S.W.
    8. Aboriginal Piccaninnies
    9. Aboriginal family
    10. Aboriginal camp
    11. Aboriginal family
    12. Aboriginal Chief (painted with pipeclay)
    13. Govt. agents distributing blankets to Aboriginals
    14. Group [of] men from interior of Queensland (photo. captioned Group of Myall Aboriginals)
    15. Aboriginal Chief and Gin
    16. "Warriors in Ambush". Ceremony in the Bora Ground
    17. "Worshipping the Deity". Ceremony in the Bora Ground
    18. The Bora Rite, or initiation of young men. Novices with heads shrouded
    19. Opening the Bora
    20. "Spearing a Wild Animal". Ceremony Bora Ground
    21. "Gathering Birds' Eggs". Ceremony Bora Ground
    22. "Spearing the Wild Bull". Ceremony Bora Ground
    23. "Following the Emu". Ceremony Bora Ground
    24. Bora Rite: Young men waiting the decision of the Chiefs
    25. Corroboree. "A Battle"
    26. Corroboree. "Drafting Sheep"
    27. Corroboree. "A Tribal Fight"
    28. Corroboree. "Healing the Sick Warrior"
    29. Corroboree. "Tracking"
    30. Spearing fish
    31. Bora Rite: Taking the young men to the chiefs
    32. Bora Rite: Leaving the Bora Ground
    33. Bora Rite: Passing under the Arch of Spears
    34. Bora Rite: Approaching the High Chief
    35. Bora Ground (on photo: Aboriginal Ceremony "The Sick Warrior")
    36. Bora Rite: "Arrival of the King"
    37. Bora Ceremony: "An Ambush"
    38. Bora Rite: "At the Mound Figure"
    39. Bora Ceremony: "Spearing the Wild Boar
    40-41. Aboriginal climbing tree with piece of vine
    42. Aboriginal Warriors
    43. Aboriginal Chief and Gin
    44. Aboriginal making fire with stick
    45. Aboriginal, Peel River, N.S.W.
    46-47. Aboriginal making fire with piece of stick
    48. Aboriginal with Devil Mask (on photo. Prince of Wales Island Man with Mask)
    49. Aboriginal throwing Nulllah-Nullah
    50. Aboriginal throwing Boomerang
    51. Aboriginal girl, Coastal Tribe N.S.W.
    52. "Bhoolidhoo", Queen of Wagga Tribe
    53. "Tewitt", Chief of Jervis Bay Tribe, N.S.W.
    54. "Warryne", Chief Yass District N.S.W.
    55. "Melandiga", Warrior, Clarence River N.S.W.
    56. Aboriginal throwing boomerang
    57. Aboriginal women
    58. Aboriginal fight
    59-60. Natives, Workii Tribe
    61. "Nerelle", Princess of Moruya Tribe N.S.W.
    62. Aboriginal girl with Helieman
    63. Aboriginal, Roma district, Q. [Queensland]
    64. "Gingung", Warrior, Bathurst District N.S.W.
    65. "Warryne", Chief Yass District N.S.W.
    66. "Gumbarlee", Warrior, Clarence River, N.S.W.
    67. Aboriginal, Namoi River N.S.W.
    68. Aboriginal, Barron River, Q. [Queensland]
    69. Aboriginal, Port Darwin, Q.
    70. Aboriginal, Ethridge River, Q.
    71-73. Aboriginal, Prince of Wales Island, Q. (no. 71: Prince Dugum)
    74-75. Aboriginal, Port Essenden Q.
    76-77. "Nerelle", princess of Moruya Tribe
    78. "Yendhah" girl, Tumut Tribe
    79-80. Aboriginal woman, Monaro, N.S.W.
    81-82. "Keanni", Queen Macleay River Tribe, N.S.W.
    83-84. "Boona", Queen, Cooma Tribe
    85-86. "Minningun", Aboriginal woman, Macleay River
    87-88. Aboriginal woman, Gilbert River, Q.
    89-90. "Bhoolidoo", Queen of Wagga Tribe, N.S.W.
    91-93. "Tewitt", Chief Jervis Bay Tribe, N.S.W.
    94-95. "Gumbarlee", Warrior, Clarence River, N.S.W.
    96-97. "Boree", Chief Jervis Bay, N.S.W.
    98-99. "Dhraub", Chief Bombala Tribe, N.S.W.
    100-101. "Micallem", Chief Araluen Tribe, N.S.W.
    102-103. Aboriginal Chief Karundee Tribe, Queensland
    104-105. "Nerriga", Chief Darling River Tribe, N.S.W.
    106-107. "Cunninghun", Warrior, Armidale, N.S.W.
    108. Aboriginal Warrior, Bogan River Tribe, N.S.W.
    109. Aboriginal Warrior, Monaro, N.S.W.
    110-111. "Cootajandra", Warrior, Workii Tribe, Queensland
    112. "Coongardi", Warrior, Gilbert River Tribe, Queensland
    113. Aboriginal Warrior, Prince of Wales Island, Queensland
    114."Karundi", Warrior, Myall Tribe, Queensland
    115. Aboriginal Warrior, Boogoolmurra Tribe, Queensland
    116. Aboriginal Warrior, Miccoolin Tribe, Q.
    117. Aboriginal boy, Port Darwin, Queensland
    118. Aboriginal woman, coastal tribe, N.S.W.
    119-120. Aboriginal woman, Workii Tribe, Q.
    121-123. "Gingung", warrior, Bathurst Tribe, N.S.W.
    124-125. Aboriginal Warrior, Roma, Queensland
    126-127. Aboriginal King, Moruya Tribe, N.S.W.
    128-129. Aboriginal Chief, Bellinger River tribe, N.S.W.
    130-131. "Jinnagorray", Chief, Grafton Tribe, N.S.W.
    132-133. "Weyera", Chief, Hunter River Tribe, N.S.W.
    134-135. "Narimboo", Chief of Workii tribe, Queensland
    136-137. "Melandiga", warrior, Clarence River, N.S.W.
    138. Aboriginal Warrior, Namoi River, N.S.W.
    139. Aboriginal Warrior, Warrego River, N.S.W.
    140. Aboriginal Warrior, Mary River, Queensland
    141. "Burrabadah" warrior, Twofold Bay, N.S.W.
    142. Aboriginal warrior, Snowy Mountains, N.S.W.
    143. "Wharangoo" warrior, Tenterfield Tribe, N.S.W.
    144. "Graamoni", warrior Cootamundra Tribe, N.S.W.
    145. Aboriginal Warrior, Boogoolmurra tribe, Queensland
    146. "Warryne", Warrior, Yass Tribe, N.S.W.
    147. Aboriginal warrior, South Coast, N.S.W.
    148. Aboriginal warrior, Gilbert River, Queensland
    149. Aboriginal warrior, Boogoolmurra Tribe, Queensland
    150. "Geedah", King, Prince of Wales Island, Queensland
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Title from Printed Books catalogue entry

    Typed caption below each photograph and a title printed on most photographs

    "Kerry & Co. photo. / 308 Geo St Sydney / Copyright" -- blind stamp on majority of photographs

    "Kerry Photo Sydney" -- printed on majority of photographs

    Some of these individuals from Queensland were members of "Meston's Wild Australia", who appeared at Bondi Aquarium in Jan 1893. See Sydney Mail 21 Jan 1893
    The troupe of 22 males, five females and a boy were also photographed by Henry King (in Sydney) and William John Lindt (probably in Melbourne).
    For identification of the Aborigines in Meston's Wild Australia troups, see also:
    J.W. Lindt "Australian Aborigines 1893", an album of 51 albumen prints held in the Museum of Mankind, London and listed in The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia Report by Alan Davies, 1986, page 75, and,
    Australian photographs [picture] / by Henry King. [no publication details, before 1893] - album of 20 photographs (ML Q572.9901/K)

    Charles Kerry and Henry King negatives are held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney and the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney

    The bora ceremony photographs were photographed by Kerry near Quambone NSW in 1898. See Charles Kerry 'Exhibits' in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of NSW vol XXX111, 1899
    Digital order no:Album ID : 823573
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    Living Language: Country, Culture, Community - State Library of New South Wales (13 July - 17 November, 2019). Applies to: No. 13
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