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Aboriginal burial mound and carved trees, William Blandowski ca. 1856-1857

Aboriginal burial mound and carved trees, William Blandowski ca. 1856-...

Aboriginal burial mound. Illustrates of Aboriginal Australia by William Blandowski between 1856-1857. William Blanowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led a Victorian government expedition ... More

Aboriginal carved trees, photographed by Clifton Cappie Towle (c. 1925)

Aboriginal carved trees, photographed by Clifton Cappie Towle (c. 1925...

Aboriginal carved trees, photographed by Clifton Cappie Towle (c. 1925)

Aboriginal man making boomerang, New South Wales, Australia, ca. 1905

Aboriginal man making boomerang, New South Wales, Australia, ca. 1905

Aboriginal man making boomerang, New South Wales, Australia. Photographed by Thomas Dick 1905

Aboriginal man with spear, woomera (spear-thrower) and waddy, South Australia. ca. 1876

Aboriginal man with spear, woomera (spear-thrower) and waddy, South Au...

Aboriginal man with spear, woomera (spear-thrower) and waddy, South Australia. Photographed by Captain Sweet ca. 1876

Aboriginal bark canoe in process of construction, South Australia ca. 1862

Aboriginal bark canoe in process of construction, South Australia ca. ...

Aboriginal bark canoe in process of construction, South Australia. Photographed by General Burnell ca. 1862. [On back of photograph] 'Aboriginal Canoe Building on Murray River / The sheet of bark, after being... More

Aboriginal burial mound, William Blandowski ca. 1856-1857

Aboriginal burial mound, William Blandowski ca. 1856-1857

Aboriginal burial mound. Illustrates of Aboriginal Australia by William Blandowski between 1856-1857. William Blanowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led a Victorian government expedition t... More

Aboriginal burial mound, Australia, Charles Sturt (1833)

Aboriginal burial mound, Australia, Charles Sturt (1833)

Aboriginal burial mound. 'Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia' by Charles Sturt (1833)

Aboriginal children (Pitjantjatjara) at play, Central Australia, ca. 1937

Aboriginal children (Pitjantjatjara) at play, Central Australia, ca. 1...

Pitjantjatjara children at play, Central Australia, Charles Mountford, ca. 1937

Aboriginal man carrying a shield and waddy, South Australia, ca. 1875

Aboriginal man carrying a shield and waddy, South Australia, ca. 1875

Aboriginal man holding a shield and waddy, South Australia. Photographed by Captain Sweet ca. 1875

Aboriginal man carrying a shield, waddy and boomerang, South Australia, ca. 1875

Aboriginal man carrying a shield, waddy and boomerang, South Australia...

Aboriginal man carrying a shield, waddy and boomerang, South Australia. Photographed by Captain Sweet ca. 1875

Aboriginal men making bark canoe after heating it over fire, ca. 1905

Aboriginal men making bark canoe after heating it over fire, ca. 1905

Aboriginal men making bark canoe after heating it over fire, New South Wales. Photographed by Thomas Dick ca. 1905

Aboriginal winter encampments in wurlies, near Adelaide, South Australia, Eugene von Guérard ca. 1858

Aboriginal winter encampments in wurlies, near Adelaide, South Austral...

Aboriginal winter encampments in wurlies, near Adelaide, South Australia, Eugene von Guérard ca. 1858

Aboriginal temporary bark gunyah (shelter), ca. 1870

Aboriginal temporary bark gunyah (shelter), ca. 1870

Aboriginal temporary bark gunyah (shelter), Victoria, John Steel, ca. 1889. "Reminiscence of a visit to Victoria, Australia, April 1889". John Steel, photographer.

Four Aboriginal people at the entrance to their dwelling, Western Australia, Gustav Riemer ca. 1876

Four Aboriginal people at the entrance to their dwelling, Western Aust...

Four Aboriginal (Noongar) people at the entrance to their dwelling wearing traditional pelt cloaks, shelter possibly also covered in pelts, Western Australia, Gustav Riemer ca. 1876

Heating bark for making bark canoe 1905

Heating bark for making bark canoe 1905

Heating bark for making bark canoe. Photographed by Thomas Dick ca. 1905

Sydney Cove medallion 1789 Josiah Wedgwood a128978

Sydney Cove medallion 1789 Josiah Wedgwood a128978

Sydney Cove medallion, 1789, red ochre clay, modelled by William Hackwood after a design by Henry Webber, original issue, Josiah Wedgwood

Two Aborigines in a bark canoe by the riverbank ca.1870

Two Aborigines in a bark canoe by the riverbank ca.1870

Two Aboriginal people in a bark canoe close to the river bank on the Murray, in the Moorundie area. The man standing is dressed in a fur cloak made of possum skins and is propelling the canoe with a long pole. ca.1870

Unaipon c 1934 SLNSW FL19830624

Unaipon c 1934 SLNSW FL19830624

Portrait of David Unaipon, Aboriginal inventor, and author, Sydney, c. 1934, by Harold Cazneaux, from vintage negative, State Library of New South Wales, ON 388/Box 061/Item 169

Marn grook illustration 1857

Marn grook illustration 1857

Aboriginal domestic scene. The etching was executed by German artist Gustav Mützel, who worked from the sketches of German explorer Johan Wilhelm Theodor Ludwig von Blandowski (see Marn Grook: name of the earl... More

William Tietkens

William Tietkens

Portrait des William_Tietkens

Aboriginal Australians from "A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies ... Illustrated by three maps, fifteen etchings, and several wood-cuts"

Aboriginal Australians from "A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian ...

This image has been taken from scan 000283 from "A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies ... Illustrated by three maps, fifteen etchings, and several wood-cuts". The title and subject terms of this im... More

map from "Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians. [With plates.]"

map from "Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians. [With plates.]"

This image has been taken from scan 000325 from "Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians. [With plates.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the Britis... More

map from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent"

map from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place o...

This image has been taken from scan 000582 from volume 03 of "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent". T... More

Aboriginal Australians from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent"

Aboriginal Australians from "The Australian Race: its origin, language...

This image has been taken from scan 000168 from volume 01 of "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent". T... More

Murray River Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.

Murray River Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photog...

Picryl description: Public domain image of fishing, fishing boat, river, lake, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Queen'sland Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.

Queen'sland Blacks. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photogr...

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

artist:name=R Jones from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations"

artist:name=R Jones from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by...

This image has been taken from scan 000448 from volume 01 of "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from ta... More

artist:name=William Hatherell from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations"

artist:name=William Hatherell from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia....

This image has been taken from scan 000141 from volume 01 of "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from ta... More

artist:name=R Jones from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations"

artist:name=R Jones from "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by...

This image has been taken from scan 000445 from volume 02 of "Cassell's Picturesque Australasia. Edited by E. E. M. With ... illustrations". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from ta... More

Kings [sic] Sound - aborigine man in loin-cloth, with chest and arms covered with ritual scars

Kings [sic] Sound - aborigine man in loin-cloth, with chest and arms c...

Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collec... More

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

Kings [sic] Sound - aborigine man, woman, and boy in loin-clothes, sta...

Similar to lantern slide W7-666. Photographic print made by LC from Jackson's vintage film negative. Gift; Colorado Historical Society; 1949. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transporta... More

Native Australians hunting

Native Australians hunting

Photograph shows Aboriginal natives of Australia: 2 men hunting with spear.

Francis F. Gillen, 41522 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Francis F. Gillen, 41522 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More

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

The local and traditional land owners of Bradshaw finish

The local and traditional land owners of Bradshaw finish

The local and traditional land owners of Bradshaw finish their ceremonial dance by waving to the U.S. Marines, U.S. Navy sailors and Australian soldiers June 23 after the “Welcome to Country” ceremony at Bradsh... More

13. At Warralong Station

13. At Warralong Station

'At Warralong Station, in North-West Australia a young camel, that had been caught from a wild mob of such animals, was a station pet.'

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

North Coolgardie Blacks, Western Australia - very early 1900s

North Coolgardie Blacks, Western Australia - very early 1900s

"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 (18), Bernard Spragg Photo

didgeridoo (18), Bernard Spragg Photo

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

Scene at Palm Islands, North Queensland - 1908

Scene at Palm Islands, North Queensland - 1908

One of many postcards produced by the Queensland Government to hand out at the Franco-British Exhibition in London in 1908.

Aborgines at Momba 1870s

Aborgines at Momba 1870s

Aborigines at Momba Station by Frederick Bonney 1870s

Aboriginal Australian women and children, Maloga, N.S.W

Aboriginal Australian women and children, Maloga, N.S.W

Postcard showing a group of women in bush setting, two standing beside bark shelter, two more seated at entrance of shelter, three of them holding babies. All the women are wearing European dress, woman on left... More

Aboriginal boy holding two infant wallabies or kangaroos - NTL PH0340-0077

Aboriginal boy holding two infant wallabies or kangaroos - NTL PH0340-...

Aboriginal boy holding two infant wallabies or kangaroos.

Aboriginal boy with turkey - NTL PH0116-0004

Aboriginal boy with turkey - NTL PH0116-0004

Aboriginal boy with live scrub turkey.

Aboriginal boys - NTL 39854

Aboriginal boys - NTL 39854

Aboriginal boys. They appear to be standing by a steep bank at a waterhole. The smaller boys have distended abdomens, indicating malnutrition.

Aboriginal boys and men in front of a bush shelter - NTL PH0731-0022

Aboriginal boys and men in front of a bush shelter - NTL PH0731-0022

Some Aboriginal boys and men in front of a bush shelter, Groote Eylandt, NT, c.1933.

Aboriginal boys with sticks - NTL 29248

Aboriginal boys with sticks - NTL 29248

Aboriginal boys with sticks. Public domain photograph of indigenous native people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aboriginal children at the Bungalow in Alice Springs

Aboriginal children at the Bungalow in Alice Springs

Aboriginal children at the Bungalow in Alice Springs.

Aboriginal man and boy with dugout - NTL PH0190-0018

Aboriginal man and boy with dugout - NTL PH0190-0018

Steam ship from Sydney at Darwin Wharf. Aboriginal man and boy in foreground with dog and dugout canoe.

Australian Aboriginal encampment (8285825877)

Australian Aboriginal encampment (8285825877)

Format: Postcard, photo mechanical print. Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. Part Of: Powerhouse Museum Collection 426937 Acquisition credit line: Gift of Elizabeth Bullard, 1967

Australian Aborigines Advocate front cover 31 March 1908

Australian Aborigines Advocate front cover 31 March 1908

Front cover of the Australian Aborigines Advocate magazine, dated 31 March 1908

Bathurst Island men - Australia in World War Two

Bathurst Island men - Australia in World War Two

Title: Personal photographs of the Hon. C L A Abbott during his term as Administrator of the Northern Territory - Aborigine Chief of Bathurst Island who died of fright in Darwin when he saw his first motor car Date: 1939

Boolaloo

Boolaloo

Boolaloo homestead during floods 1931

Boomerangs Forbes 1916 during World War I

Boomerangs Forbes 1916 during World War I

Public domain image of a large historic building, city hall, urban architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Cissie McLeod and Mrs Mugg (PH0412-0025)

Cissie McLeod and Mrs Mugg (PH0412-0025)

Maid servant Cissie McLeod stands by Mrs Mugg (B. James) seated in cane chair outside Government House in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. (PH0412-0025)

Coolgardie Aboriginals - A black and white photo of a group of people

Coolgardie Aboriginals - A black and white photo of a group of people

Aboriginals participating in a performance to mark the opening of the Coolgardie Railway Line, 23rd of March 1896

Corroborree - A black and white photo of a group of people

Corroborree - A black and white photo of a group of people

Cropped image from photograph taken at the premiere of Corroboree, a ballet written by composer John Antill and based on the real-life ceremony, at the Empire Theatre, Sydney, in about 1950. Photographer: Bill ... More

Daisy may bates - A black and white photo of a group of people

Daisy may bates - A black and white photo of a group of people

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

Ellen Campbell Atkinson and Edwin Atkinson

Ellen Campbell Atkinson and Edwin Atkinson

Ellen Campbell Atkinson and Edwin Atkinson at their wedding in Echuca, 3 May 1911.

George French Angas - Klemsic, 1846

George French Angas - Klemsic, 1846

Klemsic, planographic; relief lithograph, printed in colour, from multiple stones; varnish highlights by brush, 37.0 x 55.6 cm, by George French Angas

Harold Holt and FCAATSI

Harold Holt and FCAATSI

Harold Holt and two government MPs meeting with representatives of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) – from left to right: Gordon Bryant, Faith Bandler,... More

Joobaitch and Monop corroboree 1932

Joobaitch and Monop corroboree 1932

photo of Joobaitch a Noongar elder with other corroborree dancers including Monop

Joseph Lycett Corroboree Newcastle

Joseph Lycett Corroboree Newcastle

Corroboree at Newcastle, painting, oil on wooden panel, 70.5 x 122.4 cm, by Joseph Lycett

Kaikai Kulgoa Koompartoo - Public domain image of steamship

Kaikai Kulgoa Koompartoo - Public domain image of steamship

Left to right, Sydney Ferries Ltd steamers, wooden-hulled Kai Kai and Kulgoa, and steel-hulled Koompartoo (1922) after her wheelhouses were raised for spectator excursion work. Circa 1938

Last palawahs - A black and white photo of a group of people

Last palawahs - A black and white photo of a group of people

Last of the aborigines (Tasmanian aborigines; palawah). Aborigines believed to be from left to right: Mary Ann Arthur, William Lanney, seated Bessie Smith and Truganini.

Map of Area Occupied by Wangerriburra People, Queensland

Map of Area Occupied by Wangerriburra People, Queensland

Map of area occupied by Wangerriburra people, Queensland.

Mundowdna 2 - An old photo of a man and a woman riding in a horse drawn carriage

Mundowdna 2 - An old photo of a man and a woman riding in a horse draw...

Horse drawn buggy outside a stone building at Mundowdna Station ca. 1898

On the Barwon - 1850 - Public domain scan / drawing

On the Barwon - 1850 - Public domain scan / drawing

Drawing of South Geelong in 1850. Depicts the first wooden bridge across the Barwon river which washed away in the 1850s.

Painted men and boys - NTL PH0724-0031

Painted men and boys - NTL PH0724-0031

A group of Aboriginal men and boys painted for a ceremony or corroboree, Darwin, NT, 1940.

Peal Gibbs, Sydney, Australia

Peal Gibbs, Sydney, Australia

Pearl Gibbs photograph in The Sun (Sydney) 22 October 1954: 2 was the only Indigenous member of the Aborigines Welfare Board (1954 - 1957)

Crystal Palace, Prof Natives April 1884, Hyde Park, London

Crystal Palace, Prof Natives April 1884, Hyde Park, London

Members of R. A. Cunningham Australian Aboriginal international touring company, Crystal Palace, London, April 1884

Queensland State Archives 1000 Aborigine climbing for Coconuts Neck Bay Shaw Island near Lindeman Island c 1931

Queensland State Archives 1000 Aborigine climbing for Coconuts Neck Ba...

Aborigine climbing for Coconuts, Neck Bay, Shaw Island, near Lindeman Island. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 1288 Jackie Cattle Camp an aboriginal climbing a tree in Mr Englishs Jungle at Malanda NQ c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1288 Jackie Cattle Camp an aboriginal climbi...

Jackie Cattle Camp an aboriginal, climbing a tree in Mr English's Jungle at Malanda, NQ.

Queensland State Archives 1350 A typical Palm Island Native c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1350 A typical Palm Island Native c 1935

A typical Palm Island Native. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 1366 A native preparing for a war dance at Palm Island c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1366 A native preparing for a war dance at P...

A native preparing for a war dance at Palm Island. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 1376 Natives display before tourists at Palm Island c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1376 Natives display before tourists at Palm...

Natives display before tourists at Palm Island. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 1388 An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Jungle Malanda NQ c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1388 An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Ju...

An aboriginal climbing a tree in the Jungle, Malanda, NQ. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 1389 An aboriginal climbing a Monkey Rope Malanda NQ c 1935

Queensland State Archives 1389 An aboriginal climbing a Monkey Rope Ma...

An aboriginal climbing a Monkey Rope, Malanda, NQ. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album of tourist activities in North Queensland coastal and hinterland areas.)

Queensland State Archives 2474 Aborigines 1898

Queensland State Archives 2474 Aborigines 1898

Aborigines. (Original photograph caption as it appears in the album. Register listing indicates Yandilla.)

Queensland State Archives 2984 Panel from the Exhibition of Australian Aboriginal Culture prepared by the Australian National Committee for UNESCO at the Queensland Museum Brisbane 1959

Queensland State Archives 2984 Panel from the Exhibition of Australian...

Panel from the Exhibition of Australian Aboriginal Culture, prepared by the Australian National Committee for UNESCO, at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane. (As part of the Queensland Centenary celebrations, the e... More

Queensland State Archives 3072 Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers 1898

Queensland State Archives 3072 Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers 189...

Sergeant Whiteford and his trackers. (With text from A Report to the Commissioner of Police - On the Aboriginals occupying the "Hinter-land" of Princess Charlotte Bay together with a Preface containing suggesti... More

Queensland State Archives 3207 Blacks Dugout Tinnenburra c 1910

Queensland State Archives 3207 Blacks Dugout Tinnenburra c 1910

Aboriginal dugout, Tinnenburra Station, south of Cunnamulla, Queensland. Original title: "Blacks' Dugout, Tinnenburra."

Queensland State Archives 3329 Aboriginal axe found in gravel dump 25 February 1936

Queensland State Archives 3329 Aboriginal axe found in gravel dump 25 ...

Aboriginal axe found in gravel dump. (Story Bridge construction)

Queensland State Archives 4938 Permanent Residence Maalan Country North Queensland 1953

Queensland State Archives 4938 Permanent Residence Maalan Country Nort...

Permanent Residence, Maalan Country, North Queensland.

Queensland State Archives 5737 Mission conducted by Seventh Day Adventists Mona Mona June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5737 Mission conducted by Seventh Day Advent...

Mission conducted by Seventh Day Adventists, Mona Mona.

Queensland State Archives 5738 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Mona Mona June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5738 Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and par...

Hon J C Peterson Home Secretary and party with residents of Mona Mona.

Queensland State Archives 5801 Dancers Palm Island June 1931

Queensland State Archives 5801 Dancers Palm Island June 1931

Dancers, Palm Island. (Home Secretary's inspection visit to Palm Island)