Aboriginal australians Images — Public Domain Photos & Prints

Two of the Natives of New Holland, advancing to Combat. Plate 27. From...

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People of New Holland of the Malaysian race (Menschen aus Neu-Holland ...

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Kapitein Cook landt in Nieuw Holland (Australië)

Kapitein Cook en zijn bemanning zet voet op Nieuw Holland (het huidige Australië). De lokale bevolking probeert zich met speren tegen de indringers te weer te zetten.

Patet. Australians of King George's Sound From: The natural history of...

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Aboriginal Australians from "Australia Felix; or a historical and desc...

This image has been taken from scan 000100 from "Australia Felix; or a historical and descriptive account of the Settlement of Port Phillip, New South Wales; including full particulars of the manners and condit... More

Native Inquest from "The Native Tribes of South Australia, comprising ...

This image has been taken from scan 000073 from "The Native Tribes of South Australia, comprising the Narrinyeri, by ... G. Taplin. The Adelaide Tribe, by Dr. Wyatt ... The Encounter Bay Tribe, by ... A. Meyer.... More

Australia (Indian), from the Natives in Costume series (N16) for Allen...

Trade cards from the "Natives in Costume" series (N16), issued in 1886 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes. Allen & Ginter (American, Richmond, Virginia)

Aborigines of Lake Tyers. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain p...

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Two aborigines of the Worki (?) tribe, Gilbert R[iver], N. Queensland

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Kings Sound - aborigine man, woman, and boy in loin-clothes standing a...

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Aborigine man of the Worki (?) tribe, Gilbert River

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native Australians from "The Native Tribes of Central Australia. [With...

This image has been taken from scan 000189 from volume 02 of "The Native Tribes of Central Australia. [With illustrations.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by ... More

men_of_the_Emu_Totem from "The Native Tribes of Central Australia. [Wi...

This image has been taken from scan 000209 from volume 01 of "The Native Tribes of Central Australia. [With illustrations.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by ... More

At home with the most primitive people on earth--Natives of North Quee...

Photograph shows Aboriginal natives of Australia: family group with dog in front of low hut; man holding spear and dead kangaroo. Stereo by Keystone. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Group of Aborigines with protest sign

Group of Aborigines with protest sign reading "Aborigines claim citizen rights!" ..This image is part of the collections of the State Library of NSW and has been used with permission. The State Library’s Flickr... More

Section of Aboriginal meeting in Australian Hall

Section of Aboriginal meeting in Australian Hall, Sydney, organised by the Aborigines' Progressive Association mourners. ..This image is part of the collections of the State Library of NSW and has been used wit... More

A red building with a sign that says original embassy. Aboriginal aust...

A small building with a sign that says aboriginal embassy / A red and black building with a white door and window public domain stock photo.

A group of men standing around a man laying on the ground. Australia n...

A group of men in traditional attire are gathered around a man in a pool of water. Public domain stock photographs related to music and performing arts.

Native kangaroo hunters, Queensland, Australia - stereocsopic card

Photograph shows Aboriginal natives of Australia: kangaroo hunters with spears. No. 24269. No. 24269.

Australia's Aboriginal people had long known about

Australia's Aboriginal people had long known about the crater near Wolfe Creek by the time an aerial survey identified it in 1947. Almost circular, Wolfe Creek Crater (also known as Wolf Creek Crater) is consid... More

Aborigine football players, members of the Clontarf

Aborigine football players, members of the Clontarf Foundation and Marines with 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, Marine Rotational Force – Darwin, embrace after a game of football to show good sportsmanship ... More

Aboriginals Camp, Herbert River, Queensland, Australia - circa 1910

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Australia (Indian), from the Natives in Costume series (N16), Teofani ...

Publisher: Allen & Ginter (American, Richmond, Virginia) Medium: Commercial color lithograph Classification: Prints Credit Line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick Accession N... More

Aboriginal community on Coranderrk Station, Victoria - very early 1900...

Founded in 1863 on 2000 hectares of fertile mountain country in Victoria's Yarra Valley, Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was established as a last refuge for dislocated indigenous people who had been driven from ... More

Robert, King of Gumbathagang tribe, New South Wales - circa 1900

The maker of the breastplate apparently mispelled two of the place names, which should be Paddy Gully and Wards Mistake (ref. DAWN : A Monthly Magazine Produced by the Aboriginal Welfare Board, NSW, Vol No.11, ... More

Aborigines from Townsville, Qld - circa 1905

Vintage Queensland

West Australian aborigines, 1920s

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Group of Western Australian aborigines -Christmas 1910

Australian Aborigines

Aborigines in the Day Dawn/Murchison area of Western Australia - 1907

Australian Aborigines

A native corroboree - Drawing. Public domain image.

One of a set of 6 vintage postcards of Australian aborigines.

Aboriginal Camp somewhere in Queensland - circa 1910

Vintage Queensland A group of people standing in a field. A group of indigenous people standing in a field. Public domain postcard scan.

Group of female Australian aborigines - circa 1904

Australian Aborigines Public domain photograph - 20th century group portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

North Queensland aborigines - very early 1900s

Vintage Queensland

Aborigines of Lake Tyers, Victoria - very early 1900s

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NORTH COOLGARDIE BLACKS, WESTERN AUSTRALIA - very early 1900s

Australian Aborigines

Pompie family - 1947 - KOONIBBA ABORIGINAL LUTHERAN MISSION

Vintage South Australia

Native family and their home at Koolpinyah Compound, Northern Territor...

Australian Aborigines

Arunta Tribesman, Central Australia - very early 1900s

Australian Aborigines

Before the Corroboree - Westralian Natives, Day Dawn, W.A. - very earl...

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Victor Harbour Blacks, South Australia

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Jubilee of Point McLeay Mission, South Australia - 9 May 1909

Point McLeay Mission (renamed Raukkan in 1982) was founded in 1859 by the Aborigines' Friends Association. This station was designed to help the Aboriginal people of the Lower Lakes area. The poor quality of t... More

Aged Natives, South Queensland - very early 1900s

Tommy, King of Noosa - Weyba, Cootharaba, Tumburrawa.King Brown - Woolumba.Members of the Gubbi Gubbi tribe.

Flour rations to natives, South Australia - 1911

"I originally joined Flickr to dedicate and share on my photostream vintage photographs taken by Henry William Mobsby F.R.G.S., F.R.S.A. (1860-1933) who was my husband's great great uncle... He was an Englishma... More

didgeridoo (21), Bernard Spragg Photo

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didgeridoo (14), Bernard Spragg Photo

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Didgeridoo, Bernard Spragg Photo

The didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread use today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes de... More

Lubras Camp, Maloga, New South Wales - 1890s

After European settlement in the tribal lands of the Yorta Yorta people of the Murray - Goulburn region of New South Wales, the remaining Yorta Yorta population and other tribal groups from neighboring areas we... More

Warrior Chiefs in War Paint - Australian Aborigines

A Queensland government photograph possibly from the 1930/40s.

Aborigines from north Queensland - circa 1900

Possibly members of the Kalkadoon tribe of Australian aborigines from the Mt Isa region..Caption: Queensland Blacks 'North'

Normanton natives - circa 1897, Australian aborigines

Normanton is a town in far north Queensland.

Image taken from page 608 of '[An Account of the English Colony in New...

Image taken from:..Title: "[An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales ... To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand; compiled ... from the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King ... Illustrated by... More

Cullin-La-Ringo massacre, Queensland, Australia

The Wills Tragedy: The arrival of the neighbouring squatters and Mon collecting and burying the dead, after the attack by the blacks on H.R. Wills ESQ. Stationed Leichhardt district, Queensland.

Queensland State Archives 1380 Palm Island natives in war paint c 1935

Palm Island natives in war paint. (The photograph is part of an album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 5787 Home Secretarys inspection visit to Map...

Home Secretary's inspection visit to Mapoon.

Queensland State Archives 5795 Residents of Palm Island June 1931

Residents of Palm Island.

Queensland State Archives 5805 Mrs J C Peterson and child Yarrabah Jun...

Mrs J C Peterson and child, Yarrabah.

State Lib Qld 1 395125 Lily Lagoon, a backwater of Tully River, ca. 19...

Lily Lagoon, a backwater of Tully River, ca. 1910 An Aboriginal boy is rowing a boat in a lagoon.

Taking of Colbee and Bennelong 25 November 1789

Taking of Colbee and Bennelong 25 November 1789 by William Bradley

Tommy McRae Buckley's Escape - Drawing. Public domain image.

Buckley's Escape, pen and ink on paper, 24.0 x 30.0 cm, by Tommy McRae

Visit of Charles Fraser p20 (2) - Public domain engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Visit of Charles Fraser p22 (2) - Public domain scan / engraving

Image from The Visit of Charles Fraser to the Swan River in 1827 (1906) by José Guillermo Hay Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image is of Australian origin and is now in the public domain bec... More

Ann Curthoys and Louise Higham interview residents at Moree Aborigial ...

Ann Curthoys and Louise Higham interview residents at Moree Aborigial Station during the Freedom Ride on 17 February 1965

Sketches in the Environs of Sydney (BM 1871,0610.537)

View of Farm Cove in Sydney Harbour with ships at anchor. 1849 Tinted lithograph

Mary. Botany Bay Tribe. (BM 1893,0803.54)

Portrait of Mary in profile (partially in silhouette), wearing a shirt, a skirt, and a cloak; in front of a garment and a small cloth bundle; state with title lettering filled. 1836 Lithograph

Mary. Botany Bay Tribe. (BM Oc2006,Prt.345)

Portrait of Mary in profile (partially in silhouette), wearing a shirt, a skirt, and a cloak; in front of a garment and a small cloth bundle. 1836 Lithograph

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Aborigine-2. Image from Zeno.org

Deutsch: Aborigine

Aborigine. Image from Zeno.org

Deutsch: Aborigine

BOOTH(1873) 1.106 CARROBBOREE, ON THE BANKS OF THE MURRAY

Aboriginal Australians in 1965 detail, from- Charles Perkins talking w...

Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree in Australia Deutsch: Der Aboriginalaktivist Charles Perkins im Gespräch mit Aboriginal-Einwohnern in Moree in Australien Can you h... More

Aborigines day of mourning, Sydney, 26 January 1938 (2868759783)

Format: Photomechanical half-tone print Notes: For the first time, Australian Aborigines protested their treatment. "WE APPEAL to the Australian Nation of to-day ... for FULL CITIZEN STATUS and EQUALITY WITHIN... More

Freedom riders at Bowraville (20715203332)

Can you help identify the people and places documented in this photograph? [L to R:] Gerry Mason, Pat Healy, Sue Reeves, Charles Perkins, Ray Leppik, Bob Gallagher, Ann Curthoys, John Butterworth, Norm McKay, A... More

HODGSON(1846) Australia - Public domain historical image

Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis J Gillen - Young Jingili woman with...

Douglas T. Kilburn - No title (Group of Koorie men) - Google Art Proje...

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055 Dinjimanne wife daughter w480

Dinjimanne his wife and daughter, Giles West Camp, South of Mt Woodroffe, south-central Musgrave Ranges, South Australia, 1903Deutsch: Dinjimanne mit Frau und Tochter im Giles-West-Camp 1903

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Aboriginal dwellings, Hermannsburg, Northern Territory 1923

Arrernte boy with toy shield

Arrernte boy holding toy shield, Alberga River, South Australia 1920–24Deutsch: Kind der Arrernte mit Holzschwert und Schild am Alberga River, Südaustralien (1920–24).

Arrernte man with badly united fracture, Henbury station, Northern Ter...

Original caption: "Arrernte man with badly united fracture, Henbury station, Northern Territory."

Boys in dugout - A black and white photo of a group of people in canoe...

Boys in a dugout and two bark canoes, Apsley Strait, with Melville Island in the distance, Northern Territory.

Cape Dombey people - A group of men standing next to each other

Aboriginal people at Cape Dombey, north of Port Keats, Northern Territory.

Children resting on a mangrove stump while bathing

Children resting on a mangrove stump while bathing, Sunday Island, Western Australia, May 1916. Photo: Herbert Basedow. Reproduced from film negative.

Kai Kai Western Arrernte

Deutsch: Kai Kai, a Western Arrernte man, Henbury station, Northern Territory, 1920English: This Western Arrernte man's name was Kai Kai (in Basedow's spelling) and Basedow photographed him in the Aboriginal ca... More

Kolaia man - A man in a giraffe hat doing a yoga pose

Kolaia man wearing a headdress worn in a fire ceremony, Forrest River, Western Australia.

Native raft called kaloa - NMA-11791

Native raft called kaloa, on George Water W.A..

Old man in front of his hut, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Old man in front of his hut."

Rock carvings, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Rock carvings."

Rock engraving of human form - NMA-11812

Showing rock engraving of human form (North Western Australia).

Rock paintings - NMA-11802

Aboriginal people painted on rock surfaces using four main colours - red, yellow, black and white. Only rarely were other colours employed. Red, yellow and white come from rocks and clay, and black often from c... More

Showing method of attack with boomerang - NMA-15147

Luritja man demonstrating method of attack with boomerang under cover of shield. An indigenous man with headdress and body paint is posing with a boomerang in his hand raised behind his head, with a shield and ... More

Week-old baby asleep in a wooden container, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Week-old baby asleep in a wooden container."

Wogait people, Anson Bay

Men, possibly of the Wogait people, Anson Bay, Northern Territory probably 1905.Original caption: "Preparing for an emu hunt"

Woman painted with pipe-clay, photograph by H. Basedow

Woman painted with pipe-clay.

Women carrying baskets - NMA-12829

Two women carrying large plaited baskets suspended from a band around their heads. One of the women is also carrying a child. (Liverpool River, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory).

Children Boggabilla Station, New South Wales

Children outside some of the 27 houses at Boggabilla Station, November 1952, Pix magazine photograph, silver gelatin negative, State Library of New South Wales ON 388/Box 038/Item 050

Cobbo, Daniel. Member of the Australian Light Horse, 1917

Cobbo, Daniel. Member of the Australian Light Horse, 1917 Public domain photograph related to Queensland, Australia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George of Saxby Downs with his wife at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement ...

George of Saxby Downs with his wife at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement 1909

StateLibQld 1 395129 Quiet reach of the Lower Tully River, ca. 1910

Quiet reach of the Lower Tully River, ca. 1910 A man is rowing a boat with two Aboriginal boys standing and looking ahead.

StateLibQld 1 90776 Bowen re-enactment, 1951

Bowen re-enactment, 1951 Group of Aborigines holding spears are standing on a beach as part of a re-enactment of the establishment of Bowen in 1861. (Description supplied with photograph.).