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Title
E.P. Ramsay - collection of drawings of ethnological material and biological specimens, 1885-1915
Creator
E. P. (Edward Pierson) Ramsay, 1842-1916
Call number
DG*D 33
Level of description
fonds
Date

ca. 1885-1915
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Drawings, Prints, Photographs
Reference code
442767
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
ca. 179 pencil drawings on paper and card, 1 mounted aquatint, 1 photoprint
Scope and Content
Album contains drawings that relate to natural history and ethnological specimens. The biological sketches are of galls on eucalypts, birds' and spiders' nests. The anthropoligical drawings are mostly of Australian Aborigines' stone axes (some of which were listed by Ramsay). There are also indigenous artefacts from Tasmania, New Guinea, New Zealand, and Fiji.

1 "Charley" Spearing Kangaroo's [aquatint]
2 Queen Street, Brisbane, 1859 [copy print]

Part I Biological drawings

1a Gall on eucalyptus white barked gum - Unsigned, undated
1b Gall on the titree melaleuca - Unsigned, undated
2a [Gall] on the swamp oak casuarina - E.II.P. 24/4.95
2b [Gall] on acatia - E.II.P. 24/4.95
3 [Gall] on young box - Unsigned, April 20th/95
4 Remarkable eucalyptus galls found near Lincoln Grove - E.II.P. April 8th 1895 [10 numbered sketches]
5 [9 unnumbered sketches of eucalyptus galls and spiders' nests] - Unsigned, undated
6a Galls on a small stunted forest "box" eucalyptus - E.II.P. undated
6b Galls on eucalyptus box (verso of 6a)
7a [4 numbered sketches] 3 & 4 Nests of mud made by a mason hornet ... Dobroyde, Sydney - E.II.P. 23.4.95
7b Leaf of young box (verso of 7a)
8a [Box-tree galls marked male/female] Taken (by J.S.R. Jun.) - Unsigned, April 20th/95
8b Another species probably [males] only taken ... on box-tree - Unsigned, April 20th/95
9a [Outlines only] Apiomorpha munita - Unsigned, undated
9b [Outlines only] Hylarcta nigrescens; Hornet mud nest - Unsigned, undated
10a [Outlines only] 1-8 Apiomorpha munita, 10 Apiomorpha ovicola? - Unsigned, undated
10b [Nest of] rhypidura, ... Gully, N. Zealand - Unsigned, undated

Part IA Artefacts

11 [Label for] 3 drawings of Chief Thackenbau's [sic] eating fork ... - Unsigned, undated
11a [1 of] 3 drawings of Chief Thackenbau's [sic] eating fork ... - Unsigned, undated
11b [2 of] 3 drawings of Chief Thackenbau's [sic] eating fork ... - Unsigned, undated
11c [3 of] 3 drawings of Chief Thackenbau's [sic] eating fork ... - Unsigned, undated
12a [Unidentified; 1 of 5 sketches of decorated clubs, possibly of Polynesian origin] - Unsigned, undated
12b [Unidentified; 2 of 5 sketches of decorated clubs, possibly of Polynesian origin] - Unsigned, undated
12c [Unidentified; 3 of 5 sketches of decorated clubs, possibly of Polynesian origin] - Unsigned, undated
12d [Unidentified; 4 of 5 sketches of decorated clubs, possibly of Polynesian origin] - Unsigned, undated
12e [Unidentified; 5 of 5 sketches of decorated clubs, possibly of Polynesian origin] - Unsigned, undated
13 Prehistoric double-bladed knife ... from"The American Naturalist" Vol. XXXVI, Jan. 1902, No. 421 - Unsigned, undated
14a Knife used for kangaroo skining [sic] by Aborigines of Cape York district - Unsigned, undated
14b [Unidentified; club and stick both with weighted(?) strings attached to one end] - Unsigned, undated

Part IB Non-Australian stone implements

15 Collingwood Bay, New Guinea (from: E. Ford Coll:) - Unsigned, undated
16 [Unidentified; very similar to 15] - Unsigned, undated
17 Port Moresby, New Guinea ...(No.5 of Goldies) - Unsigned, undated
18a Port Moresby, New Guinea (Goldie), butt end - Unsigned, undated
18b Port Moresby, New Guinea (Goldie), cutting end - Unsigned, undated
19 Port Moresby, New Guinea - Unsigned, undated
20 "Wedau", New Guinea (from S. Ford) [two varieties] - Unsigned, undated
21 "Wedau", New Guinea (S. Ford) - Unsigned, undated
22 [Unidentified, New Guinea] - Unsigned, undated
23 New Zealand from A. Olle - Unsigned, undated
24 From A. Olle New Zealand No. 0 - Unsigned, undated
25 Fiji, presented by A. von Heugel - Unsigned, undated
26[a] "Rewa"Fiji, Presented by E. Webb Esquire Sen. 24.5.1901 (another Fijian artefact may be seen at Part II: 24) - Unsigned, undated
[26b Fiji, presented by Baron A. von Heugel - Unsigned, undated]
27 "Erromanga stone-axe from'H.R.B.' lent by Mr. Sinclair" - E.II.P. 2.2.1906
28 "Navilah" or sacred stone from Erromanga (lent by R.E.) - Unsigned, undated
29[a] Obsidian knife, striped ... Maria Island Admiralty Group - E.F. Undated
[29b La Perouse, Thos. Whitelegge - Unsigned, 6.1904]
[29c [Unidentified - Unsigned, undated]
30 "Maria" Island of the Admiralty Islands Group, S.P. - Unsigned, undated

Part II Lists

The Axes of "The (Black) Apostles" of N.S.W. &c [Old list 1 of 5 pages]
The Axes of "The (Black) Apostles" of N.S.W. &c [Old list 2 of 5 pages]
The Axes of "The (Black) Apostles" of N.S.W. &c [Old list 3 of 5 pages]
The Axes of "The (Black) Apostles" of N.S.W. &c [Old list 4 of 5 pages]
The Axes of "The (Black) Apostles" of N.S.W. &c [Old list 5 of 5 pages]
New List of Stone Axes - Oct. 7, 1901 [New list 1 of 2 pages]
New List of Stone Axes - Oct. 7, 1901 [New list 2 of 2 pages]

Part II Australian stone axes

1 Missing
2 Two views : one on sheet with no.34, one on sheet with no.3
3 Four views, fourth on sheet no.2
4 Two views, each with additional numbering ' n-2 '
5 On sheet with Nos.4, 6-7
6 Two views, second on sheet no.5
7 Two views, second on sheet no.5
8 Two views, second on sheet with nos. 9, 34
9 Five views, fifth on sheet no.8
10 Two views, second on sheet with no.11
11 On sheet with un-numbered sketch' another view on no.10
12 On sheet with nos.21, 23, 26
13 With additional numbering n-2
14 Two views, second on sheet with nos.15, 16
15 See sheet no.14
16 See sheet no.14
17 Four views; third copy on sheet with no.18 and unidentified sketch; fourth copy on sheet with no.1
18 Five views, fourth on sheet with no.28. fifth on sheet with no.17
19 See sheet no.17(4th copy)
19a See sheet no.29( 3rd copy)
20 Four views; fourth see sheet no.22
21 Three views; third on sheet no.12
22 On sheet with nos.20, 23
23 Three views; second see sheet no.12, third see sheet no.22
24 On sheet with no.33 and sketch of Fijian artefact
25 Two views; second on sheet with unidentified sketch
26 Two views; second on sheet with 26
26a See sheet no.26(2nd copy)
27 Five views; fifth see sheet no.35
28 Missing
29 Four views; third on sheet no.19 & fourth on sheet no.37
30 Three views
30a No caption
30b On one sheet
30c On one sheet
31 On one sheet with no.32
32 Four views; fourth see sheet no.31
33 Missing
34 See sheets nos. 2, 8 - N.B. this appears only on"old"list
35 Two copies, second on sheet with no.27 - N.B. this appears only on"New"list
36 On sheet with no.37 - N.B. this appears only on"Old"list
37 Three views; third on sheet with no.29
38 Missing - N.B. this appears only on"Old"list
39 Missing - N.B. this appears only on"Old"list
40 See Part 1, no.26 - N.B. this appears only on"Old"list
41 See Part 1, no.25 - N.B. this appears only on"Old"list
42 With added numbering ' n-2 ' - N.B. this appears only on"Old"list
43 Missing - N.B. this appears only on"Old"list

Part IIA Australian stone axes

44 Hard black Diorite (Ellis) (No.1)
45 Dobroyde 21.4.1903. J.R. (No.2)
46 Flint (?) flakes used by the Aborigines ... (1-10)
47 Dobroyde (Jame's Ground) 21-4-1903 (J.R.) (No.3)
48 Fine grained grey Diorite ... near Mosgiel K.H.B. (No.3)
49 J.H. Kenyon ... (Ellis) (No.3)
50 (Ellis) (No. 3) E.II.P.
51 Collected by J.F. Kenyon P.M. in the Bourke & Brewarrina districts 1898-1900 (No.4)
52 Grey granite; hard red quartzite [with sketch of no.13] (No.4)
53 Found in a sand mound at"Bellambi"near Woollongong NSW, 5th February 1902 ... (Mackenzie) (No.5)
54 (bis)"Bellambi"near Wollongong NSW, Mr R.N. Mackenzie (No. 5)
55 ..."Bellambi"...(No. 5)
56 ...(N - L) Lincoln Grove Kingswood 26.10.1896 ...(No.5)
57 Close grained Blackish Diorite Wilcania ...(No.5)
58 Lincoln Grove 26.10.1896 (No.5)
59 Green Diorite Coombie Str ...(No.10) [and] ... stained light red Lincoln Grove (No.5)
60 bis(Ellis fr.) Near Kenyon(No.5)
61 Ellis(Kenyon)(No.6)
62 Collected ... Bourke & Brewarrina ... 1890-1900(No.7)
63 J.H. Kenyon(No.7)
64 Eliis(J.H. Kenyon)(No.8)
65 Ashy-grey Diorite ...(No.10)
66 N.L. O.L., no.9(No.11)
67 ... Hard red quatoote [?]....(No.12)
68 Red Quartzite(No.12)
69(Kenyon) ... per G.Ellis. Loc.... Bourke & Brewarrina(No.13)
70 ... Grinding stone"Pestle"for bruising up Nardoo & Pigweed ...(No.15)
71 Hard grey flint stone ... Long Bay(Nos.1, 1a, 2)

Part IIB Tasmanian stone axes

72 V.D.L. ... from old Aborigines Camp(A.M.)(No.1)
73 V.D.L. ...(No.1) [and] old from old Aborigines Camp near Hobat Tasmania(A.M.)(No.2)
74 Tasmania from old Aborigines Camp(No.2)
75 Tasmania ...(No.2)
76 V.D.L. ...(No.2)
77 Pres. Alec Morton ... V.D.L.(no.3)
78 V.D.L. A.M.(No.3)

Part III Stone axes

1 Fine grey - grained sandstone weight 7lb. 2oz
2 Hard black Diorite(Not Ellis)
3 One of the old sort ...
4 From J.S.P.R. ... found at Burrangarry ... 1908 ....
5 An Australian chipped Knife from the interior boundary of New South Wales ....
6 Flint(?) flakes from ... Thirroul ...
7 From Australian Mus. Loc. Patria ?
8 Booroondara .... 1885 [and] New Zealand
9 Tasmania from an old blacks' camp
10 Volcanic Mr. E. Webb ...
11"Booroondara"... 1885 [and] from A. Olle, New Zealand
12 Diorite, K.H.B. Wilcania
13 Lincoln Grove ... 1896
14 Lincoln Grove ... Blue slate - colour [sic] ...
15 Wyrallah Richmond ... 1890 ...
16 Stanwell Park ... 1906
17 From"Old Bore"ground Kingswood ...
18 Hawkesbury River ...
19 Booroondara ... 1885 ...
20 ... near Penrith [and] Lincoln Grove ... 1896 ...
21 Lincoln Grove Kingswood, New South Wales
22 Volcanic pseudomorph ...
23 Berowra Creek ... 1904 [and] from Oab, Int. Gold District ... [and] Stanwell Park ... 1906
24 ? Outimba
25 ... red Quartzite ...
26 Water worn stone from Hawkesbury River ...
27 Found at"Barrangarry"... 5/08 ...
28 Kingswood 189[?]
29 Kingswood
30 Portion of stone axe with Ostrea shell growing on it ...
31 ... Darling Downs ...
32 ... 1901. Bellambi, Sand - dune
33 Coombie Station ...
34 Thirroul Beach ...
35 Found ... in the paddock opposite"Truro"... 1915 ...
36 from Bradley's Head ... 1911 ...
37 Enfield ... '06
38 Botany near the north head ...
39"Bellambi"... 1902 ... Dark grey sandstone
40 Collected in 1901 ... Bellambi ...
41 ... possibly a sinker for a fishing net ...
42 ... Long Bay ...
43 ... East Creek 24.4.1896 ...
44 From the grave of an Aborigine ... 1895
45 Bradley's Head ... 31.3.11 ...
46 ... Botany October 31.03
47 ... Chipped stone axe
48 Un-numbered and unidentified
49 Un-numbered and unidentified
50 Un-numbered and unidentified
51 Un-numbered and unidentified
52 Un-numbered and unidentified
53 Un-numbered and unidentified
54 Un-numbered and unidentified
55 Un-numbered and unidentified
56 Un-numbered and unidentified
57 Un-numbered and unidentified
58 Un-numbered and unidentified
59 Un-numbered and unidentified
60 Un-numbered and unidentified
61 Un-numbered and unidentified
62 Un-numbered and unidentified
63 Un-numbered and unidentified
64 Un-numbered and unidentified
65 Un-numbered and unidentified
66 Un-numbered and unidentified
67 Un-numbered and unidentified
68 Un-numbered and unidentified
69 Un-numbered and unidentified

Part IV

1 Lithograph by Harriett Scott
2 19th century envelope addressed ' Edw. Ramsay Esquire, Sydney '
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
Finding Aids
Click here for a pdf version of the partially transcribed contents list acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2007/D00007/dgd33.pdf
General note

Most of the drawings are annoted with descriptive notes.
Some sheets have more than one sketch.
The old numbering system has been retained but does not correspond with the total number of individual drawings or sheets.
At an unknown date, a photoprint titled, "'Success' fake convict shop at Circular Quay, Sydney, ca. 1891" was removed from the album and placed in the Small Pictures File. It is now located at SPF/763 (Mitchell Library).
Signatures / Inscriptions

Some of the sketches are signed and dated.
Topic
Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
axes
birds' nests
clubs (weapons)
eating & drinking
ethnology
Fijians
hunting
kangaroos
knives
natural history illustrations
Polynesians
tools
weapons
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