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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.

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.

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

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 425 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 425 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 425 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 444 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 444 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 444 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p344-fig155

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p344-fig155

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p344-fig155

Shirley Murrey? with three children outside shack at Moree, February 1965 - The Tribune (20698264866)

Shirley Murrey? with three children outside shack at Moree, February 1...

Can you help identify the people and places documented in this photograph? Call Number: ON 161/220 Format: photonegative, 35mm Find more detailed information about this photograph: www.acmssearch.sl.nsw.gov.au/... More

Aborigines in the Day Dawn/Murchison area of Western Australia -  1907
Arunta Tribesman, Central Australia - very early 1900s
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

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

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

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

Balbuk - Public domain portrait print

Balbuk - Public domain portrait print

Group portrait of Noongar men, women, and children, Fanny Balbuk seated on the right in the white dress.

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14781272692)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

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

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

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.

Queensland State Archives 5795 Residents of Palm Island June 1931
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

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

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

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

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 38 - Tutnurring

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 38 - Tutnurring

Tutnurring, showing characteristic markings

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17870172986)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17870172986)

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 (17893544442)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17893544442)

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

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p301a

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p301a

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p301a

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p339-fig148

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p339-fig148

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p339-fig148

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p366-fig178

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p366-fig178

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p366-fig178

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p367-fig180

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p367-fig180

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p367-fig180

Victorian Aboriginals’ war implements, Coranderrk
Natives of Australia (1906) (14768799555)

Natives of Australia (1906) (14768799555)

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

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

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

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

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

Queensland State Archives 5805 Mrs J C Peterson and child Yarrabah June 1931
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

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

Kolbe Et COO Na

Kolbe Et COO Na

Ελληνικά: Ηλεκτρόλυση τύπου Kolbe δοαλύματος EtCOONa - Παραγωγή BuH

Yam diggers at Indented Head Victoria 1835

Yam diggers at Indented Head Victoria 1835

Yam diggers at Indented Head Victoria 1835 Illustration JH Wedge

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

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.

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 21 - Guliwil of the Wotjobaluk tribe
Page 150 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 150 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 483 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 483 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 483 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig132

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig132

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig132

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig135

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig135

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig135

The funeral of Queen Narelle, wife of King Merriman at Wallaga Lake, William Henry Corkhill

The funeral of Queen Narelle, wife of King Merriman at Wallaga Lake, W...

National Library of Australia scan. Date given as circa 1900.

NATIVES OF ENDEAVOUR RIVER IN A CANOE, FISHING

NATIVES OF ENDEAVOUR RIVER IN A CANOE, FISHING

Copy of woodcut done by Phillip Parker King during his voyage of 1818

Natives of Australia (1906) (14766452534)

Natives of Australia (1906) (14766452534)

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

Members of the anthropological expedition to the Warburton Ranges

Members of the anthropological expedition to the Warburton Ranges

Members of the anthropological expedition to the Warburton Range in Western Australia, 1935. From left: Charles Mountford, E. O. Stocker, N. B. Tindale (leader), and Dr C. J. Hackett.

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

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

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 Diagram XXXI
Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 49 - Kurnai women carrying child
Page 114 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 114 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 114 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 282 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 282 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 282 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 446 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 446 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 446 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

An account of the English colony in New South Wales, from its first settlement in January 1788 to August 1801 BHL45924686

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 /

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p368-fig181

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p368-fig181

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p368-fig181

Eine merkwuerdige lebende Gesellschaft Indianischer Buschmenschen aus Neuholland

Eine merkwuerdige lebende Gesellschaft Indianischer Buschmenschen aus ...

Herr Heinrich Hill bei seiner Durchreise eine merkwürdige lebende Gesellschaft Indianischer Buschmenschen aus Neuholland, eingeschifft in Botany-Bay nebst einer Afrikanerin, von der Küste Angola zu zeigen die E... More

Natives of Australia (1906) (14582152528)

Natives of Australia (1906) (14582152528)

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

Natives of Australia (1906) (14765658721)

Natives of Australia (1906) (14765658721)

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

The Australian Museum magazine (1921) (20162921510)

The Australian Museum magazine (1921) (20162921510)

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

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

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.

North Queensland aborigines - very early 1900s
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

HODGSON(1846) Australia - Public domain historical image
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

Corrobberee Singing

Corrobberee Singing

Traditional tribal ceremony including singing and dancing

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

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 401b Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 401b Boy Travellers Australasia

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

Page 142 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 142 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration of page 142 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Marn grook football - Drawing. Public domain image.

Marn grook football - Drawing. Public domain image.

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

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17708779910)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17708779910)

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 /

Aboriginesofvictoria01-315a-Fig98

Aboriginesofvictoria01-315a-Fig98

Aboriginesofvictoria01-315a-Fig98

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14778470381)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... More

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14801493553)

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and pe...

Identifier: blackpoliceofque00kenn (find matches) Title: The black police of Queensland : reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Ke... 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

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.

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

Aborigines from Townsville, Qld - circa 1905
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

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

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 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(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

NSRW Australian Types
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