• Title
  Cobbawn Wogi Native Chief of Ashe Island Hunters [sic] River N S Wales, 1819 / drawn by R. Browne
• Creator
  Richard Browne, 1776-1824
• Call number
  SV/146
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1819
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  457942
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Drawings - 1 watercolour - 27.5 x 34.5 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Cobbawn Wogi, Ashe Island clan was one of the Awabakal leaders in the Newcastle district in the early days of settlement -- University of Newcastle, Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies
• Scope and Content
  Bust of an Aboriginal native chief with tribal markings, carrying a spear
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A frontispiece titled `Cobawn Wogy one of the natives of New South Wales' was published `Narrative of a voyage to New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land in the ship Skelton, during the year 1820 / James Dixon. Edinburgh : Printed for John Anderson, 1822 (ML 980.1/218A2)
  For further information on Robert Browne and his work: Skottow Manuscript / Tim Bonyhady. Sydney : David Ell Press : Hordern House, 1988 (ML Q508.944/1)
  
  Copy print available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
  Digital order no:a1528526
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  `Drawn by R.Browne No 27 Philip Street, Sydney New South Wales, 1819' -- written beneath image
• Name
  Cobbawn Wogi
  
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales.
  Aboriginal Australians in art.
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  portraits
  body-marking
  
• Exhibited in
  
  A Rage for Curiosity - State Library of New South Wales (1 September, 1997 - 11 January, 1998)
  Treasures of Newcastle from the Macquarie Era - Newcastle Region Art Gallery (February, 2013 - May, 2013)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3251495

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