• Title
  Aborigines of Tasmania : 31 photographs / David Scott Mitchell copy
• Call number
  PXD 572/vol. 1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  approximately 1835-1866
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  1291973
• Physical Description
  1 albums (32 prints) - albumen - 45 x 42 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  Subtitled "31 photographs" on title page. 31 photographs are listed in index. Contains one additional photographic copy of a landscape, Wybalena - Aboriginal Establishment Flinders Island 1845, at end of volume (total 32 photographs).
  
  1. "Jimmy" a native of the Hampshire Hills. Van Dieman's [i.e. Diemen's] Land
  2. "Woureddy" a native of the Brune Island. Van Dieman's Land
  3. "Timmy" a native of Brune Island. Van Dieman's Land
  4. "Saratong" a native of Cape Grimm. Van Dieman's Land
  5. "Fanny" a native of Port Dalrymple. Van Dieman's Land
  6-7. "Manalargenna" Chief of the Eastern Coast. Van Dieman's Land
  8-9. "Jimmy" Native of the Eastern Coast. Van Dieman's Land
  10-11. "Jimmy" Native of Port Sorell. Van Dieman's Land
  12-13. "Truggernana" Native of Recherche. Van Dieman's Land
  14. "Jack" Native of Cape Grimm. Van Dieman's Land
  15. "William Lanne" The last man, 29 years old
  16-17. "William Lanne" Coal River Tribe
  18. "Lallah Rookh" or "Trucanina". The last woman
  19. "Lallah Rookh" or "Trucanina". 65 years old
  20. "Lallah Rookh" or "Trucanina" Bruni Island Tribe
  21. "Bessie Clark" or "Pinnabathac" (Kangaroo Head). 50 years old
  22. "Bessie Clark" or "Pinnabathac". 50 years old
  23. "Bessie Clark" or "Pinnabathac" Macquarie Harbour Tribe
  24. "Wapperty" or Wonoteah Cootemana (Thunder and Lightning), 70 years old
  25. "Wapperty" or "Wonoteah Cootemana"
  26. "Wapperty" or "Wonoteah Cootemana" Ben Lomond Tribe
  27-29. "Patty" or Cooneana (the Ring-tailed Opossum). Kangaroo Tribe. No age given
  30. William Lanne, Trucanini and Bessie Clark [group portrait]
  31. Five pure half-castes, Cape Barren Island [group portrait]. Taken by the Bishop of Tasmania, March 1893
  32. Wybalena - Aboriginal Establishment Flinders Island 1845
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Includes List of Contents.
• General note
  
  At the bottom of the index is explanatory text, "Numbers 1 to 14 inclusive are from sketches by Bock from life in the possession of The Royal Society of Tasmania. The remainder are photographs taken from life in 1866, and the ages given are up to that date". Number 32 is a photographic copy of a watercolour view.
  
  "Photographs by Bishop Nixon (1858) ... of Tasmanian Aborigines were re-released by Beattie after 1891" -- Tasmanian photographers 1840-1940 / Chris Long, p.14
  "D.S. Mitchell" signature appears opposite title page.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1292602
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  'J.W. Beattie Photographer Hobart' appears as a blind stamp at lower left of each print
• Date note
  
  Original drawings approximately 1835-1840 and photographs 1866
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Beattie, J. W. (John Watt), 1859-1930
  Bock, Thomas, 1793-1855
  Nixon, Francis-Russell, 1803-1879
  
• Name
  Lanne, William, 1835?-1869
  Woureddy
  Truganini (1803-1876)
  Clark, Bessy, ca. 1825-1867
  Manalargenna
  Wapperty
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  
• Place
  Flinders Island (Tas.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE506208

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