• Title
  [Photograph of] Aboriginal hut, La Perouse, [ca. 1910]
• Call number
  SSV/138
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1910
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  1336663
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - gelatin silver - image 9.30 x 11.55 cm, black cardboard album page cut-out 10.40 x 12.10 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  During the mid-1880s the community at La Perouse began attracting non-indigenous tourists from the city. The La Perouse Aboriginal people participated in the tourist industry, selling boomerangs and other souvenirs, including the famed shellwork produced by the Aboriginal women to visitors. Between 1908 and 1915 the population at La Perouse grew from 73 to 124.
  
  References:
  La Perouse Mission Church. http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/ (accessed 7 July 2015)
  La Perouse : the place, the people and the sea / a collection of writing by members of the Aboriginal community. Matraville : Individual Heritage Group, [1987]
• Scope and Content
  A non-Aboriginal woman, probably a tourist, stands beside a hut at La Perouse, Sydney, NSW.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Inscribed on mount 'Aboriginal Hut. La Perouse.'
• Date note
  
  Dated by vendor
• Conservation note
  
  Photograph pasted on portion of black cardboard album page. Minor rumpling where glued.
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Sydney Region--Dwellings.
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--La Perouse.
  Photography--New South Wales--20th century.
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  huts
  tourists
  
• Place
  La Perouse (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE8855636

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