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Aboriginal final rest - Public domain  drawing

Aboriginal final rest - Public domain drawing

At the lower Murray River in South Australia, the deceased is wrapped in a blanket with his weapons and favourite items, placed on a frame and left lying in the sun. Drawing by W. Blandowski.

Vocabularies for four representative tribes page 105

Vocabularies for four representative tribes page 105

Aboriginal suburb names in the back of Watson's book Vocabularies for four representative tribes page 105

PSM V52 D032 Australian weapons and utensils

PSM V52 D032 Australian weapons and utensils

Australian weapons and utensils

Aboriginal carved trees II, photographed by Henry King (ca.1889-1894)

Aboriginal carved trees II, photographed by Henry King (ca.1889-1894)

Aboriginal carved trees, photographed by Henry King (ca.1889-1894)

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

Sandals, Kimberley, Australia, No. 1912.01.0922 - Etnografiska museet - Stockholm, Sweden - DSC01348

Sandals, Kimberley, Australia, No. 1912.01.0922 - Etnografiska museet ...

Exhibit in the Etnografiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.

Native Drawings (Discoveries in Australia)

Native Drawings (Discoveries in Australia)

This is an image entitled "Native Drawings" from Volume 2 of John Lort Stokes' 1846 book Discoveries in Australia.

Pages from the journal of a Queensland squatter (1901) (14785729633)

Pages from the journal of a Queensland squatter (1901) (14785729633)

Identifier: pagesfromjournal00desa (find matches) Title: Pages from the journal of a Queensland squatter Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: De Satgé, Oscar, b. 1836 Subjects: Queensland -- Description and travel P... More

SLNSW 851806 Banks Papers Series 36a

SLNSW 851806 Banks Papers Series 36a

Banks Papers - Series 36a; Papers of Sir Joseph Banks - charts and illustrations, ca 1790s, 1803

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

Camp at Gladfield - Public domain portrait drawing

Camp at Gladfield - Public domain portrait drawing

Camp at Gladfield, A Pencil drawing by Martens, Conrad (1801–78) dated Dec. 29th 1851 - 19.1 x 31.1cm held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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.

Corroboree dance

Corroboree dance

Illustration from the book "Twenty years before the mast" by Charles Erskine. Between pages 100-101. Русский: Иллюстрация из книги Чарльза Эрскина "Twenty years before the mast". Между страницами 100-101.  Th... More

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

Port Jackson, Nlle Hollande, Ceremonie preliminaire d'un mariage, chez les sauvages

Port Jackson, Nlle Hollande, Ceremonie preliminaire d'un mariage, chez...

Image is of pre marriage ceremony of Port Jackson indigenous people. as plate 114 of Voyage autour du monde : entrepris par ordre du roi ... exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant... More

Unidentified objects, Australia, c. 1912 - Etnografiska museet - Stockholm, Sweden - DSC01368

Unidentified objects, Australia, c. 1912 - Etnografiska museet - Stock...

Exhibit in the Etnografiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.

Aboriginal carved trees, photographed by Henry King (ca.1889 and 1894)

Aboriginal carved trees, photographed by Henry King (ca.1889 and 1894)

Aboriginal carved trees, photographed by Henry King (ca.1889-1894). A remarkable example of a carved burial tree. This photo was taken by Henry King in 1889-1894 before it was removed and taken to the Australi... More

Hair sticks (hårsticka), Australia, c. 1912 - Etnografiska museet - Stockholm, Sweden - DSC01362

Hair sticks (hårsticka), Australia, c. 1912 - Etnografiska museet - St...

Exhibit in the Etnografiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.

Corroboree Barak - A painting of a group of people on a wall

Corroboree Barak - A painting of a group of people on a wall

Figures in possum-skin cloaks, circa 1898

Corroboree on the Murray River

Corroboree on the Murray River

Corroboree on the Murray River, 1858. Watercolour by Gerard Krefft.

SLNSW 851809 Banks Papers Series 36a

SLNSW 851809 Banks Papers Series 36a

Banks Papers - Series 36a; Papers of Sir Joseph Banks - charts and illustrations, ca 1790s, 1803

Aborigines 112 - A drawing of a man and a woman
SLNSW 851807 Banks Papers Series 36a

SLNSW 851807 Banks Papers Series 36a

Banks Papers - Series 36a; Papers of Sir Joseph Banks - charts and illustrations, ca 1790s, 1803

Aboriginal fire making - A drawing of a group of people and animals

Aboriginal fire making - A drawing of a group of people and animals

The two methods of making fire. In the foreground lies a killed emu, a stone axe, also a spear and throwing sticks. A family of Dacelo giganteus (Kookaburra) sit on an idian rubber tree making their ridiculous... More

Different methods of hair dressing - NMA-11787

Different methods of hair dressing - NMA-11787

Men displaying different methods of dressing their hair (Cambridge Gulf, Western Australia).

Aborigines preparing skin

Aborigines preparing skin

Aboriginal people preparing possum-skin cloaks.

The grave of a native of Australia by G.H. Evans; engraved by R. Havell & Son. John Oxley ca, 1820

The grave of a native of Australia by G.H. Evans; engraved by R. Havel...

The grave of a native of Australia by G.H. Evans; engraved by R. Havell & Son. John Oxley ca, 1820.

SLNSW 851808 Banks Papers Series 36a

SLNSW 851808 Banks Papers Series 36a

Banks Papers - Series 36a; Papers of Sir Joseph Banks - charts and illustrations, ca 1790s, 1803

Receptacle, Sunday Islands, Australia, bark, No. 1912.01.1070 - Etnografiska museet - Stockholm, Sweden - DSC01350

Receptacle, Sunday Islands, Australia, bark, No. 1912.01.1070 - Etnogr...

Exhibit in the Etnografiska museet, Stockholm, Sweden. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.

Manner in which the natives of the East Coast Stirke Turtle

Manner in which the natives of the East Coast Stirke Turtle

jpg copy of image from free of copyright copy of King's journals from 1812

Pages from the journal of a Queensland squatter (1901) (14765858725)

Pages from the journal of a Queensland squatter (1901) (14765858725)

Identifier: pagesfromjournal00desa (find matches) Title: Pages from the journal of a Queensland squatter Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: De Satgé, Oscar, b. 1836 Subjects: Queensland -- Description and travel P... More

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