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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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Image-taken-from-page-437-of-an-account-of-the-english-colony-in-new-s...

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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LA2-NSRW-1-0178 - 01

North Australian

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LA2-NSRW-1-0178 - 12

Man of New Britain Public domain photograph related to the history of China, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Australian Legendary Tales p51

Australian Legendary Tales p51

image from page 51 of "Australian Legendary Tales" by K. Langloh Parker

Page 052 Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 052 Boy Travellers Australasia

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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

Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes (Pl. XXXIII) (7979795942)

Voyage de découvertes aux terres australes (Pl. XXXIII) (7979795942)

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

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

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p300a

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p300a

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p300a

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

361 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (11290145663)

361 of 'Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien' (112901456...

Image taken from: Title: "Blandt Menneskeædere. Fire aars Reise i Australien" Author: LUMHOLTZ, Carl. Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10491.ff.10." Page: 361 Place of Publishing: Kjøbenhavn Date of Publishing... More

Illawalla 1 - Victorian era public domain image

Illawalla 1 - Victorian era public domain image

The Illwalla, Thornton, Lancashire. Now demolished. Public domain photograph of Victorian style building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Page 111b Boy Travellers Australasia

Page 111b Boy Travellers Australasia

Bottom slice of illustration on page 111 of The Boy Travellers in Australasia (1888).

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Page 339b Boy Travellers Australasia

Bottom slice of illustration on page 339 of The Boy Travellers in Australasia. (1888)

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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

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 32 - Earth figure in relief of Daramulan
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Page 525 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Aboriginesofvictoria01-p304c

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p304c

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p304c

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p313-Fig96

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p313-Fig96

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p313-Fig96

Nativepolicedispersal

Nativepolicedispersal

Native Police dispersal

Painting of Aborigines of the Newcastle area by James Wallis

Painting of Aborigines of the Newcastle area by James Wallis

Painting of Aborigines of the Newcastle area by James Wallis

The Aborigines of Victoria Frontpiece vol 1

The Aborigines of Victoria Frontpiece vol 1

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

The black police of Queensland - reminiscences of official work and personal adventures in the early days of the colony (1902) (14594959629)

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

Aboriginal woman in a kangaroo skin cloak carrying a child, South Australia, ca. 1860

Aboriginal woman in a kangaroo skin cloak carrying a child, South Aust...

Portrait Aboriginal woman and child, wearing a kangaroo skin cloak, South Australia, ca. 1860

Australian Aboriginal Message Sticks (Howitt, 1889)

Australian Aboriginal Message Sticks (Howitt, 1889)

Australian message sticks. Message sticks were inscribed with notches and strokes whose meaning is codified. They are typically given to a messenger who delivers it to a recipient (often after a long journey).... More

Aboriginal Flag, Invasion Day march, Redfern, 26 January 2018
Australian scenery & Aboriginals - (photogr.) J. W. Lindt - btv1b8447085f (23 of 38)

Australian scenery & Aboriginals - (photogr.) J. W. Lindt - btv1b84470...

Français : Sujet : Aborigènes d'Australie Australie Paysages -- 1870-1913 Portraits -- 1870-1913 Langue : anglais Sujet : Aborigènes d'Australie Australie Paysages -- 1870-1913 Portraits -- 1870-1913 Langue : anglais

Australia 261

Australia 261

Illustration from opp p233 Illustration from opp p233

History of Australia - p113

History of Australia - p113

MARRIAGE LAWS, NEW NORCIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA. MARRIAGE LAWS, NEW NORCIA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

Of the aborigines of the western country

Of the aborigines of the western country

Picryl description: Public domain document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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)

SLNSW 799113 3 Aborigines hunting

SLNSW 799113 3 Aborigines hunting

3. [Aborigines hunting]

SLNSW 871624 Drawings by Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla

SLNSW 871624 Drawings by Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla

[Drawings by Tommy McRae and Mickey of Ulladulla]

J W. Lindt - Portrait of an Aboriginal man - Google Art Project

J W. Lindt - Portrait of an Aboriginal man - Google Art Project

Public domain photograph - 19th-century male studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Expedition guides next to wet-weather huts - NMA-156838

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

Girl tobogganing down a granite slope, photograph by H. Basedow

Girl tobogganing down a granite slope, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Girl tobogganing down a granite slope."

Group of people, seated - NMA-11960

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

Old woman in mourning, photograph by H. Basedow

Old woman in mourning, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Old woman in mourning."

StateLibQld 1 81419 Native house being constructed on Darnley Island, Torres Strait, 1899

StateLibQld 1 81419 Native house being constructed on Darnley Island, ...

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.

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - (Birds) Sketchbook mainly of activities of Aboriginals and Whites - Google Art Project (717281)

Tommy McRAE - Kwatkwat people - (Birds) Sketchbook mainly of activitie...

Public domain scan of print / book page depicting birds, ornithology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Samuel Robert Lock - Corrobbaree on the banks of Lake Alexandrina S. Australia 2012 CSK 04826 0176

Samuel Robert Lock - Corrobbaree on the banks of Lake Alexandrina S. A...

Corrobbaree on the banks of Lake Alexandrina S. Australia signed and inscribed as titled 'Corrobbaree on the banks of Lake Alexandrina S. Australia SR Lock.' on the reverse PROVENANCE: Conway Mordaunt Shipley,... More

Arrernte people's dance (from a book Published in 1931) P.310

Arrernte people's dance (from a book Published in 1931) P.310

日本語: アランダ族の踊り(1931年出版の本より)

LA2-NSRW-1-0178 - 07
Staff of Yarrabah Mission Hospital

Staff of Yarrabah Mission Hospital

An old sepia tone image of five women and a young man standing in front of a wood frame building, with the words "Hospital" over the building and "Hospital Staff-Yarrabah" under the image of the people.

More Australian legendary tales p60

More Australian legendary tales p60

Drawing from p. 60 of "More Australian legendary tales"

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 20 - A Nungi-nungit

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 20 - A Nungi-nungit

A Nungi-nungit preparing to avenge a death by evil magic in the Kurnai tribe

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 35 - Bribbum and Wabulkan

Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 35 - Bribbum and Wabulkan

(1) Bribbun of the Chepara tribe; Wabulkan of the Chepara tribe. ×½

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Page 139 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Page 351 Boy Travellers Australasia

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Aboriginal women and children at the Hope Valley Mission, North Queensland - circa 1907

Aboriginal women and children at the Hope Valley Mission, North Queens...

The Hope Valley Mission, at Hope Valley, was run by Lutheran Church Missionaries. Previously known as the Cape Bedford Mission, it was established around 1896 and closed in May 1942. It reopened as the Hope Va... More

Aborigines of Victoria - Fig 252 - Natives of King George's Sound

Aborigines of Victoria - Fig 252 - Natives of King George's Sound

Profiles of people from King George's Sound, Western Australia

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p367-fig179

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p367-fig179

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p367-fig179

Aboriginesofvictoria01p276b - A drawing of a fishing net and a fish
Aboriginesofvictoria01-p408-fig.237

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p408-fig.237

Aboriginesofvictoria01-p408-fig.237

Nativepolicemusgrave, Queensland, Australia

Nativepolicemusgrave, Queensland, Australia

Native Police detachment at Musgrave around 1898

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

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

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

Ethnological Studies Among the North-West Central Queensland Aborigines - Plate II - Sign language
Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Turandiu

Two Representative Tribes of Queensland - Turandiu

Turandiu, son of Dick and Fanny Public domain photograph related to Queensland, Australia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men (1897) (14783045052)

Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin,...

Identifier: ridpathshistoryo01ridp (find matches) Title: Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the p... More

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