Collection of slides of Australian Aborigines and natural history subjects / Brooke Nicholls

SLIDES 4

fonds

ca.1922-1937

Graphic Materials, Photographs

844926

15 negatives - glass
51 slides - lantern slides and hand-coloured

BOX 1
Australian Aborigines:

[The Flat-topped hills. Figure.3 in publication: Savage Life in Central Australia]. Lantern slide cracked.

Waterhole & Coolibahs

Widows C.A. [cropped image appears as fig.89 in publication: Savage Life in Central Australia].

Type of Half castes Cape Barren Island. Photo. A. Mattingley

[Group outside a camp]

[Man standing up in a tree]


BOX 2
Australian Aborigines:

Map showing the location of Aboriginal Tribes east of Lake Eyre [end of publication: Savage Life in Central Australia]

Map of Phillip Island

Two maps showing Australia

Native men [figure 29 titled ‘Preparing for Corroboree. Kirramurakoo painting Mowilliepedicha’ in publication: Savage Life in Central Australia] ]. Lantern slide cracked.

[Stakes stuck close together. Figure 48 in publication: Savage Life in Central Australia]

Lagoon and Coolibah. Lantern slide cracked

BOX 3
Natural History, etc. : Birds and bird nests


BOX 4
Natural History, etc : Birds, fish, platypus, wombats and Tasmanian Devil

BOX 5
Lower jaws and teeth of Australian animals and marsupials

Out of copyright: Created before 1955

Titles from boxes and labelled slides. Publication referred to is Savage life in central Australia / by G. Horne and G. Aiston. London : Macmillan, 1924.

No date. Dated from Nicholls trip up the Birdsville Track in 1922 and on date of photographer's death.