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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.

PSM V52 D032 Australian weapons and utensils

PSM V52 D032 Australian weapons and utensils

Australian weapons and utensils

An Australian Aborigine - Drawings illustrative of Captain Cook's First Voyage (c.1770-1771), f.13 - BL Add MS 15508

An Australian Aborigine - Drawings illustrative of Captain Cook's Firs...

An Australian Aborigine [Drawing No.15] A portrait of an Australian Aborigine. It appears to be a copy of a lost drawing, probably by Sydney Parkinson, made at the Endeavour River, circa December 1770-January 1771

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

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.

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.

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 hunting implements and weapons2

Aboriginal hunting implements and weapons2

A digital image of 1 watercolour ; 30.1 x 47.8 cm. titled: Aboriginal_hunting_implements_and_weapons. This is similar description to Image:Aboriginal hunting implements and weapons.jpg and this has been named t... More

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

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.

Aborigines 112 - A drawing of a man and a woman
Aborigines preparing skin

Aborigines preparing skin

Aboriginal people preparing possum-skin cloaks.

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

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