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Two of the Natives of New Holland, advancing to Combat. Plate 27. From the book: A journal of a voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's ship the Endeavour

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

Public domain scan of 18th-century genre print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kapitein Cook landt in Nieuw Holland (Australië)

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 Man by James Cowles Prichard

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

Public domain scan of 19th-19th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aboriginal Australians 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 condition of the aboriginal natives; with observations on emigration, on the system of transportation; and on colonial policy"

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 the Narrinyeri, by ... G. Taplin. The Adelaide Tribe, by Dr. Wyatt ... The Encounter Bay Tribe, by ... A. Meyer. The Port Lincoln Tribe, by ... C. W. Schürmann. The Dieyerie Tribe, by S. Gason (edited by G. Isaacs). Vocabulary of Woolner District Dialect, ... by J. W. O. Bennett. [Edited] with an introductory chapter by J. D. Woods"

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 & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

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 photograph.

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Kings Sound - aborigine man, woman, and boy in loin-clothes standing against large trunk of tree

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

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

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. [With illustrations.]"

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 Queensland, Australia

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

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

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 group of men standing around a man laying on the ground. Australia native american aborigines.

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.

Australia's Aboriginal people had long known about

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

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

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

NaN Public domain scan of the vintage Queensland postcard, Australia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Australia (Indian), from the Natives in Costume series (N16), Teofani Issue, for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

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 1900s

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

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

A native corroboree - Drawing. Public domain image.

A native corroboree - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Group of female Australian aborigines - circa 1904

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

Aborigines of Lake Tyers, Victoria - very early 1900s

Aborigines of Lake Tyers, Victoria - very early 1900s

Vintage Victoria Postcards Public domain scan of the vintage Victoria Australia postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Before the Corroboree - Westralian Natives, Day Dawn, W.A. - very early 1900s

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

Collection of Vintage Australian Postcards Public domain scan of the vintage Australian postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Victor Harbour Blacks, South Australia

Victor Harbour Blacks, South Australia

Collection of Vintage Australian Postcards Public domain scan of the vintage South Australia postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Aged Natives, South Queensland - very early 1900s

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

Lubras Camp, Maloga, New South Wales - 1890s

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

Warrior Chiefs in War Paint - Australian Aborigines

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

Aborigines from north Queensland - circa 1900

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 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 South Wales ... To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand; compiled ... from the MSS. of Lieutenant-Governor King ... Illustrated by engravings.]'

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

Taking of Colbee and Bennelong 25 November 1789

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.

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

Ann Curthoys and Louise Higham interview residents at Moree Aborigial Station 17 Feb 1965

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

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

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)

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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Image-taken-from-page-431-of-an-account-of-the-english-colony-in-new-s...

Public domain image of 18th-19th century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Image-taken-from-page-437-of-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-engravings 10999838255 o

Image-taken-from-page-437-of-an-account-of-the-english-colony-in-new-s...

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aboriginal Australians in 1965 detail, from- Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree, February 1965 - The Tribune (20153364632) (cropped)

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)

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

Showing method of attack with boomerang - NMA-15147

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

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

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

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

StateLibQld 2 143847 Bernice Bagwivi

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 - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ19500015

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 - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ19500023

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

Aboriginal Australians Print 1870-1890 AD Homo Sapiens  University of Amsterdam Special Collections

Aboriginal Australians Print 1870-1890 AD Homo Sapiens University of ...

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië Public domain scan of zoological print or book illustration, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aboriginal Australians of Port Phillip, Victoria

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.

Aboriginal people in bark canoes, location unknown (7298775980)

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

Decorated men from Boigu Island

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

Aboriginal stockmen Digby Denham and Old Mango at Midgenoo 1916 (17239414382)

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

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - (Whites fighting; musicians) Sketchbook mainly of activities of Aboriginals and Whites - Google Art Project

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 - Black fellows fishing, swan hunting and turtle hunting-Sketchbook of Aboriginal activities - Google Art Project

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - Black fellows fishing, swan hunting an...

Public domain scan of 17th-century artwork, drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - New South Wales Blacks practising fighting before going to war-Sketchbook of Aboriginal activities - Google Art Project

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - New South Wales Blacks practising figh...

Picryl description: Public domain image of war, military conflict, infantry, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

William BARAK - Wurundjeri people - Corroboree - Google Art Project

William BARAK - Wurundjeri people - Corroboree - Google Art Project

Public domain photograph of primitivism, folk art, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

William BARAK - Wurundjeri people - Dancers and women in possum skin cloaks - Google Art Project

William BARAK - Wurundjeri people - Dancers and women in possum skin c...

Place made: Coranderrk, Victoria, Australia Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Corrobberee Singing

Corrobberee Singing

Traditional tribal ceremony including singing and dancing

Kolbe Et COO Na

Kolbe Et COO Na

Ελληνικά: Ηλεκτρόλυση τύπου Kolbe δοαλύματος EtCOONa - Παραγωγή BuH

Aboriginal people(GN00723A)

Aboriginal people(GN00723A)

Two Aboriginal people on the banks of a river. It appears that one is a woman and she may be carrying a baby in the vessel under her arm, which may be a coolamon. The other is a man who is carrying an axe. The ... More

Aboriginal people in Oodnadatta, South Australia(GN01130)

Aboriginal people in Oodnadatta, South Australia(GN01130)

A group of Aboriginal people in Western-style period clothing. The women wear long fabric skirts and shirts, with headscarves. The men wear pants, boots and cowboy hats. Cattle dogs appear in the image. The ima... More

Two of the Natives of New Holland Advancing to Combat, 1773 - State Library of New South Wales

Two of the Natives of New Holland Advancing to Combat, 1773 - State Li...

"Two of the Natives of New Holland, Advancing to Combat" [original title], Sydney Parkinson, Lithographic print from 'A journal of a voyage to the South Seas in His Majesty's ship the Endeavour', 1784, State Li... More

Image taken from page 210 of 'The Australian abroad, etc' (11306853283)

Image taken from page 210 of 'The Australian abroad, etc' (11306853283...

Image taken from: Title: "The Australian abroad, etc" Author: HINGSTON, James. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10024.aaa.28." Page: 210 Place of Publishing: Melbourne Date of Publishing: 1885 Publisher: W. In... More

48 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (11290940776)

48 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (1129094077...

Image taken from: Title: "Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien" Author: LUMHOLTZ, Carl. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10491.ff.10." Page: 48 Place of Publishing: Kjøbenhavn Date of Publishing:... More

Australoid Types, H. G. Wells' Outline of History, page 65

Australoid Types, H. G. Wells' Outline of History, page 65

Illustration from page 65 of The outline of history; being a plain history of life and mankind, the definitive edition revised and rearranged by the author, by H.G. Wells, illustrated by J. F. Horrabin, showin... More

Yam diggers at Indented Head Victoria 1835

Yam diggers at Indented Head Victoria 1835

Yam diggers at Indented Head Victoria 1835 Illustration JH Wedge

Three Aboriginal Australians from 1885 in Paris

Three Aboriginal Australians from 1885 in Paris

Prince Roland Bonaparte's photograph of three Aboriginal Australians from 1885 in Paris

Hey bundið í bagga, 1907

Hey bundið í bagga, 1907

1907, hjónin Áslaug Sigurðardóttir og Stefán Helgason í heyvinnu á Arnarvatni. Hey bundið í bagga. Ljósmyndari / Photographer: Magnús Ólafsson Format: Glerplata / Glass negatives, 12 x 16 cm. Höfundarréttur / ... More

Page 099b Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 099b Boy Travellers Australasia

Bottom slice of illustration on page 99 of The Boy Travellers in Australasia (1888)

Page 337a Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 337a Boy Travellers Australasia

Top slice of illustration on page 337 of The Boy Travellers in Australasia. (1888)

Page 028a Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 028a Boy Travellers Australasia

Top portion of illustration on page 28 of The Boy Travellers in Australasia (1888)

Page 401b Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 401b Boy Travellers Australasia

Second slice of illustration on page 401 of The Boy Travellers in Australasia. (1888)

A group of Aboriginal men in possum skin cloaks and blankets in 1858 at Penshurst in Victoria

A group of Aboriginal men in possum skin cloaks and blankets in 1858 a...

Group of Aboriginal men in possum skin cloaks and blankets. An additional figure on the left, man with a gun? - has been blotted out, just a blur remains.

Inhabitants of Australia or Jave la Grande

Inhabitants of Australia or Jave la Grande

Cropped portion of Nicholas Vallard's manuscript sea atlas (1547), showing the inhabitants of Jave la Grande (Great Java). The people is armed with spear and shortsword with curving hilt, a feature of Indonesi... More

Sydney Harbour Aboriginal flag2

Sydney Harbour Aboriginal flag2

Taken just before sunset at McMahons Point. Harbour Bridge features new Aboriginal flag which succeded the NSW state flag as of 10th of July 2022. Flags have been increased in exposure to highlight the signifi... More

Australian Legendary Tales p23

Australian Legendary Tales p23

image from page 23 of "Australian Legendary Tales" by K. Langloh Parker

Corroboree or native festival

Corroboree or native festival

Corroboree. Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

More Australian legendary tales p38

More Australian legendary tales p38

Drawing from p. 38 of "More Australian legendary tales"

More Australian legendary tales p98

More Australian legendary tales p98

Drawing from p. 98 of "More Australian legendary tales"

More Australian legendary tales pXVI

More Australian legendary tales pXVI

Drawing from p. xvi of "More Australian legendary tales"

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 38 - Tutnurring

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 38 - Tutnurring

Tutnurring, showing characteristic markings

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 51 - Kurnai woman

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 51 - Kurnai woman

Kurnai woman, showing raised scars on back

Page 052 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 052 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 52 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 074 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 074 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 74 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu