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Deutsch: Aborigine

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Deutsch: Aborigine

BOOTH(1873) Australia Illustrated

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

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

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

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

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

Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree, February 1965 - The Tribune (20153364632)

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

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

Douglas Thomas Kilburn - Three Aboriginal men, Melbourne, Victoria - Google Art Project

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, entrance of the strangers, Alice Springs, Central Australia, 9 May 1901 - Google Art Project

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

Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis J Gillen - Young Anmatyerr man, Barrow Creek, Central Australia, 1901 - Google Art Project

Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis J Gillen - Young Jingili woman with plaited hair, Powell Creek, Central Australia, September-October 1901 - Google Art Project

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

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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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 Territory, photograph by H. Basedow

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 canoes

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. Basedow

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. Basedow

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. Basedow

Two men demonstrating the use of spear-thowers.

Two men with wooden hair ornaments, spears and shields, photograph by H. Basedow

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 (cropped) (cropped)

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 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, Torres Strait, 1899

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