• Title
  Charley, Chief of Merri. 5th Feby. 1848 [Brass breastplate]
• Call number
  SAFE/DR 204
  Status: On display. Objects Gallery. Case 1, Shelf 18
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1848
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  447009
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 crescent-shaped brass breastplate, engraved, with hole at each apex - 13.8 x 14.8 cm. - Front surface tarnished in places, with some pits and light scratches. Tarnished and pitted on reverse. A crack approx. 1 cm. long extends from top edge towards letter "h". Decorated with engravings of an emu and a kangaroo standing in grass. A radiating linear design is engraved below "Charley". A loop of brown cord is attached on one side.
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Titled from inscription
  Digital order no:a928654
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Charley, / Chief of Merri. / 5th Feby. 1848" -- engraved on front
• Subject
  Politics and Government - National symbols and events - King plates
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  emus
  kangaroos
  kingplates
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Poignant Regalia: 19th century aboriginal breastplates & images - Hyde Park Barracks Museum (26 May - 4 July, 1993)
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (April 2008-March 2009)

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