Series 02: Photographs, postcards and publications of Aboriginal burial grounds, archaeological sites and artifacts, particularly from Western New South Wales, ca. 1920-1944 / photographed mostly by Lindsay Black, Russell Black, C. C. Towle and B. L. Hornsham.

series

1920-1944

873617

1170 photographs, 12 postcards and clippings and 2 publications

Lindsay Black was an amateur archaeologist from Leeton, NSW.

These photographs include images of cylcons (cylindrical stone artifacts), stone implements, paddles, carved and scarred trees, bora grounds, stencil art, rock art, fisheries (fish traps), middens, stone arrangements, archaeological diggings, mines, landscapes and monuments to explorers. Some images include buildings, cars and people. It includes postcards of Aboriginal ceremonies and an album of clippings from Lindsay Black's 1944 publication "The bora ground"

ALBUM 01
Cylcons from far western N.S.W. / [probably photographed by Lindsay Black]

ALBUM 02
Cylcons from far western N.S.W. / [probably photographed by Lindsay Black]

ALBUM 03
Cylcons from far western N.S.W. / [probably photographed by Lindsay Black]

ALBUM 04
[Stone tools, cylcons, paddles from New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand], ca. 1930-1944 / possibly photographed by Lindsay Black

ALBUM 05
Bora Ground at Banaway, near Mogil Mogil, N.S.W., ca. 1930s-1941 / photographed by R.L. Black [i.e. probably Russell Black]

ALBUM 06
[Printed material], 1941-1944 / Lindsay Black

ALBUM 07
[Photographs of Aboriginal stencil art, landscapes, stone implements], ca. 1931-1941 / probably taken by Lindsay Black

ALBUM 08
[Photographs and postcards of Aboriginal archaeological sites, artifacts and ceremonies, particularly from Western New South Wales], ca 1925-1940 / probably photographed by C. C. Towle

ALBUM 09
[Photographs of Aboriginal archaeological sites and artifacts and landscapes, mostly in New South Wales], ca 1925-1940 / probably photographed by C. C. Towle

ALBUM 10
[Photographs of carved trees, Aboriginal art, middens, fish traps and landscapes in New South Wales], ca 1925-1944 / compiled by C. C. Towle

ALBUM 11
[Photographs of Aboriginal rock art and stencil art, stone tools and landscapes], ca. 1925-1944 / compiled by C. C. Towle

ALBUM 12
Album 12: Photographs of Aboriginal archaeological sites, stone tools and rock and stencil art, ca. 1931-1941

ALBUM 13
Publications by Lindsay Black
Burial trees : being the first of a series on the Aboriginal customs of the Darling Valley and Central New South Wales, Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1941.
Cylcons : the mystery stones of the Darling River Valley, [Leeton, N.S.W. : L.Black], 1942.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955

Many of these photographs appear in Lindsay Black's publications :¶¶Burial trees : being the first of a series on the Aboriginal customs of the Darling Valley and Central New South Wales, Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1941.¶¶Cylcons : the mystery stones of the Darling River Valley, [Leeton, N.S.W. : L.Black], 1942.¶¶The bora ground : being a continuation of a series on the customs of the aborigines of the Darling River Valley and of Central New South Wales, [Leeton, N.S.W.: L. Black], 1944.¶¶Copies of Burial trees and Cylcons are held with the photographs for reference purposes.

Some photographs signed on reverse - R. L. Black - probably Reginald Lindsay Black (ie Lindsay Black, not Russell Lindsay Black his son).
Chiefly captioned on reverse