Series 01: Photographic prints of Aboriginal ceremonies, body painting and rock carvings, ca. 1920-1940 / collected by Ella McFadyen

PXA 1165/Box 1

series

ca. 1920-1940

Graphic Materials, Photographs

826297

28 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 21 x 15 cm or smaller

Photographs of pastel drawings Ella McFadyen obtained from a mission in W.A. The work of children.

1. Sacred hats
2. Corroboree dancers
3. Going somewhere
4. Corroboree dancers
5. Corroboree dance
6. Kangaroo hunt
7. Dusk on the hill
8. Aboriginals by a river
9. Kangaroos
10. Kangaroos jumping a fence

Photographs sent to Ella McFadyen, editor of the Childrens’ page at the Sydney Mail by ‘Wilparoo’ of Thargomindah, Qld.

11. Ready to put on the head
12. Another head gear
13. Two gins painted up
14. Painting up

Aboriginals at McArthur River, Mornington Island fishing, roasting turtles and other scenes

15. Blacks operating on a roasted turtle Vandelin Island ...
16. The 'fish vendors' McArthur River
17. Larry ( a Mornington Island mission boy) ...
18. Fred Ruska, the skipper's son ...
19. Vandelin Island blacks with turtle. Ranger's shack behind at right
20. Roper River Mission station (Arnhem Land side of the river)

Photographs of Aboriginal petroglyphs at Maroota, N.S.W. sent to Ella McFadyen at the Sydney Mail

21. Emu and shield
22. Imaginary figure, or ‘debil-debil’
23. Kangaroo and boomerangs
24. Emu
25-26. Red hand rock, Burrangorang
27. Blacks' carvings Mt. Gundabooka, N.S.W.
28. A member of one of our ‘first families’, snapped by ‘Talofa’ of the C.P. [Childrens’ page]

See PXE 1003/Box 2/42-46 for original drawings of nos. 5-9