[Queen Mary, Barwidgee Tribe, Victoria], approximately 1866 / photograph by Thomas J. Westbourne

SPF/1325

fonds

approximately 1866

Graphic Materials, Photographs

909957

1 photographic print - albumen - 10.4 x 6.1 cm (carte de visite format)

Queen Mary was an Aboriginal Australian woman from Victoria. She was the wife of King Billy Elengeit and mother of Neddy Wheeler.

References:
Lawrence, Ruth E. "Thomas Jeston Washbourne’s photographs of Indigenous Australians." La Trobe Journal, no. 107 (November 2022): 107-11. Accessed 9 December 2022.
https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/stories/our-publications/la-trobe-journal/la-trobe-journal-no-107-november-2022

Album of photographic portraits of Australian Aboriginal men and women. National Library of Australia, PIC/15590/1-14 LOC Album 1169.

Photograph of Aboriginal Australian woman Queen Mary, standing wrapped in an animal skin cloak, holding a digging stick and a woven basket.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Title revised by cataloguer, June 2018, based on photograph held by the State Library of Victoria - Queen Mary, Barwidgee Tribe, Victoria [picture] / Thomas Washbourne. PCLTAF 980

Previously titled Yarra Aboriginal man in kangaroo furs, 186- / photographer Thomas J. Washbourne

Transferred from SPF /Australian Aborigines -- Vic. (BM), October 2010

Printed on mount below image, 'Copyright Registered / Washbourne. Photo.'
Inscribed in ink on verso of photograph by unknown person, 'Blacks, Yarra'.

Previously dated 1870. Date changed to approximately 1866 based on information supplied by Dr Ruth E Lawrence in 2022.