Douglas Thomas Kilburn - Three Aboriginal men, Melbourne, Victoria - G...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis J Gillen - Arrernte welcoming dance...
Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Douglas T. Kilburn - No title (Group of Koorie men) - Google Art Proje...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
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
186 Aboriginal dwellings w480
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.
Different methods of hair dressing - NMA-11787
Men displaying different methods of dressing their hair (Cambridge Gulf, Western Australia).
Expedition guides next to wet-weather huts - NMA-156838
Depending on where they lived, Arnhem Land people might only move camps two or three times a year. They would spend the dry season (the middle of the calendar year) in lower areas including flood plains and the... More
Fort Hill, Darwin, Northern Territory, photograph by H. Basedow
Fort Hill, Darwin, Northern Territory
Girl tobogganing down a granite slope, photograph by H. Basedow
Original caption: "Girl tobogganing down a granite slope."
Group of people, seated - NMA-11960
Basedow photographed this group of people at Mount Currie, to the north-west of the Olgas (Kuta Tjuta), in 1926. On this trip Basedow's party were travelling by camel. The two groups camped near one another and... More
Hut Eastern Arrernte Basedow
Hut decked with porcupine grass, Eastern Arrernte people, Arltunga district, Northern Territory.
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.
Man and Woman - NMA-11873
A man and woman facing each other but the man turns his head to face the camera. Both wear a loin cloth. The man holds a cigarette? and has scarification on his body. There is a pleated bark container at the wo... More
Man scraping a boomerang with a sharp stone flake, photograph by H. Ba...
Original caption: "Man scraping a boomerang with a sharp stone flake."
Man with a spear-thrower, photograph by H. Basedow
Original caption: "Man with a spear-thrower."
Men and boys playing a game of gorri - NMA-11726
All over Aboriginal Australia, men, youths and sometimes boys play games where they try to spear moving targets. Often the targets are round discs of bark. In the Humbert River area two sides take it in turns t... More
Men showing their scars - NMA-12011
Showing three standing Aboriginal men viewed from behind; all show prominent cicatrices (body scars); the man in the centre also wears a waist band and a string necklace (Port George IV, Western Australia).
Mother and child - NMA-11872
Mother and child, Sunday Island, Western Australia. Public domain photograph of family portrait, mother and child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Native raft called kaloa - NMA-11791
Native raft called kaloa, on George Water W.A..
Natives spearing fish - NMA-11825
Kakatu natives spearing fish in a billabong (East Alligator River, Northern Territory).
Old man in front of his hut, photograph by H. Basedow
Original caption: "Old man in front of his hut."
Old man with a fan to keep flies away, photograph by H. Basedow
Original caption: "Old man with a fan to keep flies away."
Old woman in mourning, photograph by H. Basedow
Original caption: "Old woman in mourning."
Pandanus basedowii - A black and white photo of a tree in the desert
Pandanus basedowii, northern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.
Portrait of a man with long hair and painted markings, photograph by H...
Original caption: "Portrait of a man with long hair and painted markings."
Portrait of two men, photograph by H. Basedow
Original caption: "Portrait of two men."
Rock carvings - NMA-144270
Rock carvings. A very definite picture of a lizard fully 60cm long stands out boldly (Deception Creek, Red Gorge, Flinders Ranges, South Australia).
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
Sunday Islanders on board - NMA-13594
Original caption: "Sunday Islanders (Ikey, Teddy and Jacky) on board the 'Rita', as members of the crew (Western Australia)."
Two men demonstrating the use of spear-thowers, photograph by H. Based...
Two men demonstrating the use of spear-thowers.
Two men with wooden hair ornaments, spears and shields, photograph by ...
Original caption: "Two men with wooden hair ornaments, spears and shields."
Victor Trumper - 1890s - An old photo of a man holding a bat
Victor Trumper - 1890s, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Week-old baby asleep in a wooden container, photograph by H. Basedow
Original caption: "Week-old baby asleep in a wooden container."
William Gilbert Grace - 1890s
William Gilbert Grace - 1890s, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia
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.
Woman with a pet possum on her head - NMA-11728
This is a Pongaponga woman from western Arnhem land. She carries, suspended from her head, a basket or bag for holding the food she has gathered. And she has a pet ring-tailed possum, which she carries on her h... More
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).
Women carrying water - NMA-12516
Women carrying water, Wadaman people, 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
Face detail, from- Towtrer Tasmanian Aboriginal by W B Gould 1833 (cro...
Towtrer Chief of the Port Davey Tribe, Tasmania, c.1933, W.B. Gould, State Library of New South Wales V/91}
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
Eliza Fraser portrait - Public domain portrait engraving
Portrait sketch of Eliza Fraser. 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 81419 Native house being constructed on Darnley Island, ...
Native house being constructed on Darnley Island, Torres Strait, 1899 Darnley Island is also known as Erub. This image shows the house during the framing construction.
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.).
StateLibQld 2 143847 Bernice Bagwivi
Bernice Bagwivi at the age of 21 in 1935. Public domain photograph related to Queensland, Australia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographi...
Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië Public domain scan of zoological print or book illustration, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographi...
Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië Public domain scan of zoological print or book illustration, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographi...
Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië Public domain scan of zoological print or book illustration, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographi...
Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië Public domain scan of zoological print or book illustration, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
JayCreekNorthernTerritory1947 - A black and white photo of a group of ...
Jay Creek, west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
A view of Botany Bay A1475003h - Public domain engraving
Engraving depicting First Fleet arriving at Botany Bay in January 1788, with Indigenous Australians in canoes witnessing the arrival. Bare Island is in the background. From The voyage of Governor Phillip to Bo... More
Aboriginal child asleep in a wooden dish, central Australia, ca. 1940s...
Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976. Title devised by cataloguer from inscription.; In album: Central Australia photograph album.; Inscriptions: "Native child asleep in wooden dish"--Below image.;... More
Humpy en route to Fish Creek near Oenpelli, Northern Territory, 2 Octo...
Miller, Robert Rush, 1916-2003 Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription and accompanying documentation.; Part of the collection: American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, Northern Territ... More
Mother and child, South Australia, ca. 1870 (8718150535)
Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; Inscriptions: "Lubra and piccaninni, South Australia"--Below image.; Also online an24652971. an24652971
Group of Aboriginals at Chowilla Station on the lower Murray River, So...
Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897 Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription beneath photograph.; In: Views of scenery on the Darling & Lower Murray during the flood of 1886.; Inscriptions: "Group of Aboriginal... More
Group of Aboriginals at Dunlop Station homestead, Darling River, New S...
Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897 Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription beneath photograph.; In: Views of scenery on the Darling & Lower Murray during the flood of 1886.; Inscriptions: "Group of Aboriginal... More
Haddon-Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres S...
Excerpt from "Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Volume 1: General Ethnography" by Alfred C. Haddon. Full book in PDF format:File:Haddon-Reports of the Cambridge Anthropolog... More
Aboriginal Australians of Port Phillip, Victoria
Pl. no. XV of: Sketches in Australia and the adjacent islands / by Harden S. Melville. Inscription: "Natives of Port Philip"--Printed below image.
Nicolas-Martin Petit New Holland-Mororé
Deutsch: Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777–1804), Teilnehmer der Baudin-Expedition nach Australien (1800–1804): Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal, junger Aborigine, Neuholland (Australien). Muséum d’histoire naturelle du Havre. Vgl.... More
Nicolas-Martin Petit Tasmanierin mit Kind in Känguruhaut
Deutsch: Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777–1804): Tasmanierin mit Kind in Känguruhaut (Ausschnitt), Muséum Le Havre, Inv.-Nr. 20022-3. Der Künstler war Mitglied der französischen Australien-Expedition (1800–1804) unt... More
Nicolas-Martin Petit Tasmanierin mit Kind in Känguruhaut grösserer Aus...
Deutsch: Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777–1804): Tasmanierin mit geschorenem Haar und mit Kind in Känguruhaut (Ausschnitt), Muséum Le Havre, Inv.-Nr. 20022-3. Der Künstler war Mitglied der französischen Australien-E... More
Stone circles near Mount Elephant 1877
Print of an illustration by J. W. Curtis
'Our Corroboree' and 'Gathering Oysters', Sydney Harbour (8724030773)
This image belongs to a photograph album relating to Edward Hungerford. The album contains images of shipping and street scenes around Sydney from the 1880s, most of which appear to have been taken by photogra... More
Aboriginal people in bark canoes, location unknown (7298775980)
This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s William Hall collection. If reproduced or distributed, this image should be clearly attributed to the collection of the Australian National Marit... More
Gary-Foley-1972
Black Moratorium rally. Ningla A-Na. Commons Attribution 4.0 BY International Licence. Under this licence you are free to copy, distribute, remix and build upon this content as long as you acknowledge the Stat... More
Gary-Foley-1972
Black Moratorium rally. Ningla A-Na. Commons Attribution 4.0 BY International Licence. Under this licence you are free to copy, distribute, remix and build upon this content as long as you acknowledge the Stat... More
Mick-Rangiari-1971
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy SEARCH Foundation collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVGxxY/8PME6b0z2WG3J Related article: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237868755
Mick-Rangiari-1971
Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy SEARCH Foundation collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVGxxY/8PME6b0z2WG3J Related article: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237868755
Police question Aboriginal Embassy protesters, Canberra, 27 January 19...
Image courtesy The Tribune / SEARCH Foundation. Call number: ON 161/675 Digital ID: FL654382 Format: negative Find more detailed information about this photograph: archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/1103675... More
Decorated men from Boigu Island
Creator: Unidentified. Location: Boigu Island, Torres Strait Island, Queensland. Description: This photograph is of Boigu Island Warriors, with their Bow and arrows. One man is holding a sword and several m... More
Murray Islanders in national dress 1960
Creator: Rechnitz, Wilhelm Lorenz. Location: Murray [Mer] Island, Queensland. Description: Murray or Mer Islanders wearing traditional dress and posing with bow and arrows at the welcoming for the new bishop... More
Station Herrmannsburg (6790321831)
Title: Station Herrmannsburg Alternative Title: The station at Herrmannsburg Creator: Unknown Date: 1892 Part Of: eaa/searchterm/Ag2002.1457 Physical Description: 1 photographic print: collotype; 25 x 35 cm. Fi... More
Aboriginal stockmen Digby Denham and Old Mango at Midgenoo 1916 (17239...
Creator: Unidentified. Location: Midgenoo, Far North Queensland, Queensland Description: Stockmen for William Dallacy. (Description supplied with photograh.) Conditions of use: Aboriginal and Torres Strait I... More
Eddie Gilbert demonstrating his bowling style, 1933 (22400050618)
Creator: Unidentified. Copied and digitised from The Queenslander, 2 February 1933. Location: Brisbane, Queensland. Description: 3 consecutive photos published in The Queenslander Illustrated Weekly demonstrat... More
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, December 1, 1927 (82303...
Creator: Agnew Garnet Description: A Christmas issue featuring an image of an aborigine with a stained glass frieze depicting aborigines with spears and boomerangs behind the main image. A census of the abori... More
View of sunset from Palm Island (19517454659)
Photographer: Unidentified Location: Palm Island, Queensland; Lat/long: -18.72665,146.630569 Description: The image shows the view of a a sunset from the beach, with a young boy standing on the shore looking ... More
Charles Kerry - Nooroona Bore(GN00067)
One of a series of glass negatives photographed by Kerry and Co, Sydney Australia. There is a similar series of photos also by Kerry and Co available in the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences. Appears to be a w... More
Woman of the Larrakia tribe
Woman of the Larrakia tribe.The scars on her back are a sign of widowhood. All the young women been married by the old men in a harem, and the widows been married by the young men. The greater sorrow over the ... More
Seven Peace Keepers (18946669324)
A photograph of "The Seven Peace Keepers" on top of the Flinders Slopes. This artwork is part of the Cross Currents Georges River Art Walk. Jamie Eastwood is a Western Sydney based Aboriginal artist working wi... More
Mickey OF ULLADULLA - Yuin, Dhurga peoples - not titled (Corroboree) -...
Public domain photograph of music festival, band, orchestra, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - (Birds) Sketchbook mainly of activitie...
Public domain scan of print / book page depicting birds, ornithology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - (Whites fighting; musicians) Sketchboo...
Public domain photograph of music festival, musicians, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - New South Wales Blacks - Sydney tribe ...
Public domain scan of 17th-century artwork, drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description