Views of Oxley taphoglyph (carved tree) at Goobothery Hill, Lachlan River, N.S.W.

SPF/1151

fonds

probably 1910-1918

Graphic Materials, Photographs

891544

Partly Digitised : B only

2 photographs - albumen - images 15.2 x 10.2 cm on mount 23 x 30 cm

A. View of the Oxley taphoglyph at Gobothery Hill, Lachlan River and its surroundings previous to its removal.

B. Stumps of the Oxley taphoglyph

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Photograph A identified from: The dendroglyphs or "carved trees" of New South Wales / by R. Etheridge. Sydney : Dept. of Mines, 1918 (Sydney : William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer) Plate XXXII Fig. 1

Transferred from SPF/Australian Aborigines -- Art, April 2010.

The donor of the photographs was probably a member of the Milne family.
Edmund Milne (1861-1917), railway stationmaster (later deputy chief commissioner for NSW Railways & Tramways) and collector of Aboriginal artefacts also located, documented and photographed Aboriginal carved trees, found at initiation and burial sites. In 1918 Robert Etheridge (director of the Australian Museum, Sydney) published The dendroglyphs or "carved trees" of New South Wales largely based on Milne's sites.

Reference:
Edmund Milne's Collection / David Kaus. National Museum. Friends [undated] pp.14-15. http://www.nma.gov.au/ (accessed April 19, 2010)
Digital order no:a1528472

Relics of the Stone Age Man in pencil at lower edge of mount