Studio portrait of Neddy Wheeler, seated, Victoria, approximately 1866 / photograph by Thomas J. Washbourne

SPF/1328

fonds

approximately 1866

Graphic Materials, Photographs

909966

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

Neddy Wheeler was an Aboriginal Australian man from Victoria. He was the son of King Billy Elengeit and Queen Mary, and the husband of Charlotte.

Reference:
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

Photograph of Aboriginal Australian man Neddy Wheeler, seated wearing an animal fur cloak and holding a boomerang.

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

Title devised by cataloguer in 2022 based on research by Ruth E Lawrence.

Previously titled [Yarra Aboriginal man in kangaroo furs]

The man in this photograph has also been identified as 'Freddy Wheeler'. [see Album of photographic portraits of Australian Aboriginal men and women. National Library of Australia, PIC/15590/1-14 LOC Album 1169]
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.