• Title
  My Korsit [or Koreit?] native boy, Mt. [i.e. Mount] Rouse settlement, June 1842 / drawn by Charles Griffith
• Creator
  Charles Griffith, 1808-1863
• Call number
  P2/503
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  June 1842
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  900454
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 drawing - pencil - image 12.9 x 9.9 cm, on album page 28.0 x 21.6 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Charles James Griffith (1808-1863), a pastoralist and politician, was born in Ireland, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and was admitted to the Irish Bar. He migrated to the Port Phillip District in 1840 and with James Moore took up the Glenmore run near Melton. In 1848, Griffith and his nephew Molesworth Greene bought Mount Hope and Mount Pyramid near Echuca.
  
  Griffith was active in Aboriginal affairs in the Port Phillip District. In his book The Present State and Prospects of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales, he describes his visit in 1842 to the Mount Rouse settlement in the Western District. Mount Rouse was the site of the headquarters of the Western District Aboriginal Protectorate. A sheep station had been established at Mount Rouse in 1840 and conflict emerged between the settlers and Aboriginals as they found their food sources were being destroyed by introduced stock.
  
  References:
  Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/ (accessed July 9, 2010)
  The present state and prospects of the Port Phillip district of New South Wales / by Charles Griffith. Dublin : William Curry, Jun. and Company, 1845.
  Public Record Office Victoria. http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/ (accessed July 9, 2010)
• Collection history
  The album page reportedly came from a folio of drawings belonging to Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury (1809-1885), paleobotanist and plant collector, and associate of Charles Darwin. Griffith visited Ireland in the 1840s and may have met Bunbury at this time and given him the drawing. It is inscribed 'by Mr Charles Griffith' in Bunbury's hand. The other drawings in this album were drawn by Bunbury. Reference: Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  A head and torso pencil portrait of an Aboriginal boy wearing an animal skin coat over his shoulders.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
• General note
  
  Title may possibly be referring to Koroit, a town located south of Mount Rouse in Victoria. Koroit (Kooreh) is an Aboriginal word for a male kangaroo.
  
  Reference:
  Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ (accessed July 9, 2010)
  Digital order no:a4154001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Title and date inscribed in pencil below portrait. Inscribed in different hand[?] in pencil on album page at lower right of portrait 'by Mr Charles Griffith'.
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--Victoria.
  Aboriginal Australians--Children.
  Aboriginal Australians--Portraits.
  boys
  
• Topic
  portraits
  
• Place
  Western District (Vic)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20792914

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