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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

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 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

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

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

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

Group of Western Australian aborigines -Christmas 1910
Aboriginal Camp somewhere in Queensland - circa 1910

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.

State Lib Qld 1 395125 Lily Lagoon, a backwater of Tully River, ca. 1910

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.

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

Children resting on a mangrove stump while bathing

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.

Woman painted with pipe-clay, photograph by H. Basedow
Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ19500106

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

Mother and child, South Australia, ca. 1870 (8718150535)

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

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

Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland - Murrumba
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An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801 BHL45924693

An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first se...

An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801 /

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17892920382)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17892920382)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of nondescript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions /

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17901542562)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17901542562)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of nondescript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions /

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Aboriginesofvictoria01-p366-fig177

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p366-fig177

Charles Perkins and Bowraville residents, February 1965 - The Tribune (20206516234)

Charles Perkins and Bowraville residents, February 1965 - The Tribune ...

Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins with Aboriginal resident at Bowraville in Australia Deutsch: Der Aboriginalaktivist Charles Perkins mit einer Aboriginal-Einwohnerin in Bowraville in Australien Can you hel... More

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

Arunta DN-SC-02-05664 cropped
People of New Holland of the Malaysian race (Menschen aus Neu-Holland von der Malayischen Race)

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

Public domain scan of 18th-century genre 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

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

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

Flour rations to natives, South Australia - 1911

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

Queensland State Archives 5787 Home Secretarys inspection visit to Mapoon June 1931
Sketches in the Environs of Sydney (BM 1871,0610.537)

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

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

055 Dinjimanne wife daughter w480

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

Wogait people, Anson Bay

Wogait people, Anson Bay

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

Aboriginal Chief Derrimut 1836 painting by Benjamin Duterrau

Aboriginal Chief Derrimut 1836 painting by Benjamin Duterrau

Chief Derah Mat [Derrimut] of Port Philip, 5 October 1836, by Benjamin Duterrau, from original oil on canvas, State Library of New South Wales, DL 371

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

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Page 074 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17870178296)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17870178296)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of nondescript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions /

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17895929015)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17895929015)

File from the Biodiversity Library. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.

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Aboriginesofvictoria01-p365-fig176

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p365-fig176

The Aborigines of Victoria - Fig 247 - Mirnyongs

The Aborigines of Victoria - Fig 247 - Mirnyongs

Diagram of mirnyongs which occur at the outlet of Lake Connewarren, Victoria, Australia

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - A comparatively straight-haired and a curly-haired man

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - A comparatively straight-hai...

A comparatively straight-haired and a curly-haired man

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Kagariu or Johnnie Campbell

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Kagariu or Johnnie Campbell

Kagariu, or Johnnie Campbell, Kabi Tribe, Mary River, Queensland, the most notorious native bushranger

Natives of Australia (1906) (14582179789)

Natives of Australia (1906) (14582179789)

Identifier: nativesofaustral00thomuoft (find matches) Title: Natives of Australia Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868- Subjects: Ethnology -- Australia Australia -- Social conditio... More

Pastor Schwarz's daughter seated with Aboriginal children from Hope Valley Mission

Pastor Schwarz's daughter seated with Aboriginal children from Hope Va...

Creator: Ivan Lester Roennfeldt. Location: Hope Vale, Queensland. Description: Pastor Schwarz married the government appointed school teacher Mary Schwarz (nee Alan) they had two daughters. The aboriginal c... More

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 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)

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

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

Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

West Australian aborigines, 1920s

West Australian aborigines, 1920s

1920-1929 Public domain photograph of indigenous native people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Native family and their home at Koolpinyah Compound, Northern Territory - 1945
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

Warrior Chiefs in War Paint - Australian Aborigines

Warrior Chiefs in War Paint - Australian Aborigines

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Rock paintings - NMA-11802

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

233 of 'Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines ... With ... illustrations' (11243978375)

233 of 'Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland A...

Image taken from: Title: "Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines ... With ... illustrations" Author: ROTH, Walter Edmund. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10491.ff.27." Page: 2... More

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An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801 BHL45924494

An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first se...

An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801 /

Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes (Pl. XXXV) (7979797224)

Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes (Pl. XXXV) (7979797224)

Deutsch: Timor-Blattnasenfledermaus (Hipposideros crumeniferus) Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes : exécuté par ordre de Sa Majesté l'empereur et roi, sur les corvettes le Géographe, le Naturaliste, e... More

Aborigines of Victoria - Fig 248 - King George's Sound Man

Aborigines of Victoria - Fig 248 - King George's Sound Man

Man from King George's Sound, Western Australia, drawn by Deputy Assistant Commisionary-General Neill

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Aboriginesofvictoria01-p302b - Public domain  drawing

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p302b - Public domain drawing

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p302b Public domain photograph of 19th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Group at the Zoo - A black and white photo of a group of people

Group at the Zoo - A black and white photo of a group of people

Group of Noongar men and women - Fanny Balbuk on the right in a white dress. Image taken at the Perth Zoo between 1885 and 1902.

The Australian Museum magazine (1921) (20162392400)

The Australian Museum magazine (1921) (20162392400)

Title: The Australian Museum magazine Identifier: australianmuseum1192123aust (find matches) Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Australian Museum; Australian Museum Subjects: Natural history Publisher: Sydney, Austr... More

The Australian Museum magazine (1921) (20356325571)

The Australian Museum magazine (1921) (20356325571)

Title: The Australian Museum magazine Identifier: australianmuseum1192123aust (find matches) Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Australian Museum; Australian Museum Subjects: Natural history Publisher: Sydney, Austr... More

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

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.

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.

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

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.

SLNSW 44240 Aboriginals and their Gum Leaf Band pass the dais

SLNSW 44240 Aboriginals and their Gum Leaf Band pass the dais

Aboriginals and their Gum Leaf Band pass the dais Public domain photograph of military parade, army ceremony, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stringybark s - Public domain  print

Stringybark s - Public domain print

"The bushranging tragedy": portraits of Kelly gang members and police officers involved in the Stringybark killings, clockwise from top left: Constable Lonigan, Ned Kelly, Constable Scanlan, Sergeant Kennedy, C... More

Three Aboriginal Australian men posing outside a tent, Durundur reserve, circa 1902

Three Aboriginal Australian men posing outside a tent, Durundur reserv...

Three Aboriginal Australian men posing outside a tent, Durundur reserve, circa 1902

Mick-Rangiari-1971

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

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Page 401d Boy Travellers Australasia

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

Tom Foster Gum Leaf Band, Sydney, Australia

Tom Foster Gum Leaf Band, Sydney, Australia

Left to Right Fred Foster, Tom Foster, Bob Simms, Dick Petty Together forming the Bringa's Gum Leaf Quartette 1932

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