Guide to images depicting Indigenous people in the Miscellaneous Photograph Collection

Number Title Description
BOX 1
PIC15 Torres Strait, Dauan Island Catch of pearl shell by crew of ‘Urupi’ by men of Duan Island, Dec 1919
PIC19 Bidgemia Station, Upper Gascoyne, WA Taken approximately 1901 by the late WW Scott then property manager. All of these natives were brought from the wildlife into captivity. Ten natives with blades and later 14 whites with machines, shore up to 1,800 bales of wool. It should be noted that the bales of wool have the ends sewn. It has been the practice over many years to secure the ends with metal bale fasteners.
PIC23 Native Village, Murray Island [Men and women in front of grass huts]
PIC33 Native children, Badu, Torres Strait, 1919; Tamwoy’s daughters, Badu, Dec 1919 [6 photographs] [Women and children; children playing in water]
PIC34 Maoris Maori woman and white child [sic]
PIC35 Maoris The Ngaeterangi chief and his family, 1899
PIC64 Maori Architecture Maori meeting house
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PIC158 Torres Strait Islands, 1915-16 Group of native men and women
PIC162 Jerry Jerome [Wearing grass loin cloth and holding spear]
PIC163 Jerry Jerome Showing the ex-boxer sitting on the step of his cottage on Fraser Island
PIC164 Cape Bedford, Queensland, 1915-1916 Native Quarters
PIC166 Cape Bedford, Queensland Schools, 1915-16 Aboriginal children lined up with white teachers
PIC167 Cape Bedford, 1915-1916 Young girls [four]
PIC169 Torres Strait Islands, Thursday Island, Yam Island Mamoose (Maina) and his Councillors, 1927
PIC179 Murray Island Native Church, Torres Strait, Queensland
PIC180 Murray Island Coconut leaf homes, Torres Strait Islands dwellings
PIC182 Darnley Island, Torres Strait, Queensland, schools [Children and teachers in front of large grass building]
PIC183 Darnley Island, Torres Strait Queensland social life and customs, Taboo sign, coconut grove
PIC184 Darnley Island, Torres Strait, Queensland Panorama [Men, women and children walking on beach] [two photographs]
PIC186 Atherton Protector’s Office, Queensland Population, 1915-16 [Men, women and children in group]
PIC192 Mareeba Schools, 1915-1916 [Aboriginal children in front of shed]
PIC193 Natives of Aspley Strait, Northern Territory Natives on boat [two men in bark canoe]
PIC194 Bathurst Island, Queensland Boys playing a game [9 young boys]
PIC195 Thursday Island, Torres Strait Queensland Low tide
PIC196 Mareeba, Queensland [Two Aboriginal men speaking at function?]
BOX 3
PIC206 Cape York Peninsula views 1915-1916 at Small River [Huts in bush]
PIC210 Yam Island, Torres Strait, 1915-16 [Large gathering of Torres Strait Islanders standing under palm trees]
PIC211 Cocoanut [sic] Island, Native Women and children, 1915-16 [Standing outside large huts]
PIC212 Cocoanut [sic] Island Village and villagers on beach front, 1915-1916
PIC213 Thursday Island, Queensland Group of teenage Thursday Islanders
PIC214 Mornington Island Views of Coast line and native rafts
PIC215 Mornington Island, 1916 Profile of native women showing cicatrices taken in 1916
PIC216 Mornington Island, 1916 Native girl with abdominal cicatrices
PIC217 Mornington Island, 1916 Dwellings, 1916 [a man and two women]
PIC220 Mornington Island Mission, 1916 Group of mission inmates [under trees]
PIC221 Mornington Island, 1915-16 School children and teacher by the school shed
PIC222 Mornington Island 1915-16 Women and children
PIC223 Mornington Island, 1915-16 Views of the mission
PIC224 Mornington Island, 1915-16 Portfolio of menfolk
PIC225 Mornington Island, 1915-16 Men and boys
PIC226 Mornington Island, 1915-16 Four women from the island
PIC227 Mornington Island, 1915-16 Native girl with cicatrices
PIC228 Mornington Island, 1915-16 Native [woman] suckling dingo pups
BOX 4
PIC301 Badu Island, Queensland Natives in cutter 1919, Badu Island, Torres Strait

 

 
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