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Haddon-Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits-Vol 1 General Ethnography-p453

Haddon-Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres S...

Excerpt from "Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Volume 1: General Ethnography" by Alfred C. Haddon. Full book in PDF format:File:Haddon-Reports of the Cambridge Anthropolog... More

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 327 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 327 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 327 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 377 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 377 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 377 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17896294801)

Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17896294801)

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 /

A group of aboriginals - A group of people standing next to each other

A group of aboriginals - A group of people standing next to each other

In known china Public domain photograph of native people, ethnic group, China, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p379

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p379

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p379

Eucalyptus hemiphloia in "Eucalypts cultivated in the United States" (1902) (14782793822)

Eucalyptus hemiphloia in "Eucalypts cultivated in the United States" (...

Identifier: eucalyptscultiva00mccl (find matches) Title: Eucalypts cultivated in the United States Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: McClatchie, Alfred James Subjects: Eucalyptus Forests and forestry -- United St... More

Harper's story books. A series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the young. Embellished with numerous and beautiful engravings (1854) (14801018103)

Harper's story books. A series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, ...

Identifier: harpersstorybook06abbo (find matches) Title: Harper's story books. A series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the young. Embellished with n... More

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

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

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

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

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

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ19500011

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 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

Murray Islanders in national dress 1960

Murray Islanders in national dress 1960

Creator: Rechnitz, Wilhelm Lorenz. Location: Murray [Mer] Island, Queensland. Description: Murray or Mer Islanders wearing traditional dress and posing with bow and arrows at the welcoming for the new bishop... More

Cape Bedford Mission Station

Cape Bedford Mission Station

Cape Bedford Mission Station, undated but must be before the death of the photographer in 1933

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-p305d

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p305d

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p305d

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

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

Cape Dombey people - A group of men standing next to each other

Cape Dombey people - A group of men standing next to each other

Aboriginal people at Cape Dombey, north of Port Keats, Northern Territory.

Kai Kai Western Arrernte

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

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

Week-old baby asleep in a wooden container, photograph by H. Basedow

Week-old baby asleep in a wooden container, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Week-old baby asleep in a wooden container."

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

A view of Botany Bay A1475003h - Public domain  engraving

A view of Botany Bay A1475003h - Public domain engraving

Engraving depicting First Fleet arriving at Botany Bay in January 1788, with Indigenous Australians in canoes witnessing the arrival. Bare Island is in the background. From The voyage of Governor Phillip to Bo... More

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

History of Adelaide and vicinity - An Encampment of Aboriginal Natives
NSRW Australian Types
Blacks under gunyah

Blacks under gunyah

BLACKS UNDER GUNYAH.

Australian Legendary Tales p23

Australian Legendary Tales p23

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

Page 162 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 162 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration of page 162 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 338 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 338 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 338 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 357 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 357 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 357 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 356 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 356 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 356 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 392 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 392 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration on page 392 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 415 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 415 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Journal of a voyage to New South Wales (17896421471)
Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes (Pl. XXIX) (7979793212)

Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes (Pl. XXIX) (7979793212)

XXIX, 0(k m ' ^•^'lif ■Ù-— .J^ i' ^ l V- ' y*' « ir ; ■)' 1. l'IlVSAI.JA M.-./„/i.,l,t fi 2 . GI.A l' C lî.S /;ii,/i,i,l.r . N. ilTSOUES ET ZOOPHYTES. jô.lllZOIMlYSA J'/,„i.:rl„,il,t N. Lî. STKl-irA... More

Narcisse Pelletier (photographie de Peigné)

Narcisse Pelletier (photographie de Peigné)

Français : Narcisse Pelletier photographié à son retour à Nantes en 1876.

Last of the Tasmanians Plate 2 - Attack on a Settlers Hut

Last of the Tasmanians Plate 2 - Attack on a Settlers Hut

Attack on a Settlers Hut Public domain image of 17th-18th-century architecture, palace, castle, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

NATIVE THROWING THE BOOMERANG

NATIVE THROWING THE BOOMERANG

Illustration from the book "Twenty years before the mast" by Charles Erskine. Page 100. Русский: Иллюстрация из книги Чарльза Эрскина "Twenty years before the mast". Страница 100.  This file was uploaded wit... More

Eugene von Guerard Tower Hill 1855 EXHI014644

Eugene von Guerard Tower Hill 1855 EXHI014644

Painting of 'Tower Hill' crater and lake. An inactive volcano on the south-West coast of Victoria, Australia. Painted by Eugene von Guérard between Wednesday 15 August, 1855 and Friday 5 October, 1855 (52 day... More

Discoveries in Australia; (1846) (14577892190)

Discoveries in Australia; (1846) (14577892190)

Identifier: discoveriesinaus00stok (find matches) Title: Discoveries in Australia; Year: 1846 (1840s) Authors: Stokes, John Lort, 1811-1885 Subjects: Natural history Publisher: London : T. and W. Boone Con... More

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14781283432)

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

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

Pompie family - 1947 - KOONIBBA ABORIGINAL LUTHERAN MISSION
didgeridoo (21), Bernard Spragg Photo

didgeridoo (21), Bernard Spragg Photo

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

Cullin-La-Ringo massacre, Queensland, Australia

Cullin-La-Ringo massacre, Queensland, Australia

The Wills Tragedy: The arrival of the neighbouring squatters and Mon collecting and burying the dead, after the attack by the blacks on H.R. Wills ESQ. Stationed Leichhardt district, Queensland.

Queensland State Archives 5805 Mrs J C Peterson and child Yarrabah June 1931
Visit of Charles Fraser p20 (2) - Public domain  engraving

Visit of Charles Fraser p20 (2) - Public domain 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

Aborigine-2. Image from Zeno.org
Aborigine. Image from Zeno.org
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

Arrernte boy with toy shield

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).

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

White (1845). Appendix (D), Table.4 in "Discoveries in Central Australia" 01

White (1845). Appendix (D), Table.4 in "Discoveries in Central Austral...

Tab.4 Hullmandel & Walton Lithographers. 1. PETASIDA EPHIPPIGERA. 2. CHRYSOPA MACULIPENNIS. 3. EURYBRACHYS LAETA. 4. TETTIGARCTA TOMENTOSA. 5. IT'S PUPA CASE. (Uploader Note: Perhaps the numbers 4 and 5 were ... 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

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

LA2-NSRW-1-0178 - 05

LA2-NSRW-1-0178 - 05

Tasmanian woman

Tom Roberts, 1887 - Reconciliation

Tom Roberts, 1887 - Reconciliation

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

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.

More Australian legendary tales p33

More Australian legendary tales p33

Drawing from p. 33 of "More Australian legendary tales"

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

Page 150 Boy Travellers Australasia

jpg of illustration of page 150 of File:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu

Page 483 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 483 Boy Travellers Australasia

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

Aboriginesofvictoria01-288a

Aboriginesofvictoria01-288a

Aboriginesofvictoria01-288a

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p305c

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p305c

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p305c Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig132

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig132

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig132

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig135

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig135

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p333-fig135

The Australian Emigrant, page 170

The Australian Emigrant, page 170

Illustration to The Australian Emigrant, facing page 170

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.

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

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

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