Indigenous Australians

  • Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.

    # 47154

    OTTO, J. H. (Johann Henri)

    Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘J. H. Otto, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Albany, W.A.’; the print has mottling in the negative and has lost some contrast; the mount has old residual glue marks verso (the carte was once mounted in an album). A …

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  • Crafts from Aurukun : design for a local environment

    # 47161

    ADAMS, Jeanie

    Crafts from Aurukun : design for a local environment

    Aurukun, Queensland : Aurukun Community Incorporated, 1986. Octavo (210 x 160 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, 28 pp., line-drawn illustrations throughout; lightly marked, else fine.

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  • "Queen Mary, Ballarat".

    # 46920

    KRUGER, Johann Friedrich Carl (Fred), (1831-1888)

    “Queen Mary, Ballarat”.

    [Caption from inscription on verso of mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso inscribed in ink (probably in the hand of the photographer) ‘Queen Mary / Ballarat’; a beautiful print with excellent clarity; the mount is clean and stable. This full-length portrait of Mary Phillips, who was commonly …

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  • Economic structure and the ceremonial exchange cycle in Arnhem Land. (With an autograph note signed by Thomson)

    # 46993

    THOMSON, Donald F. (1901-1970)

    Economic structure and the ceremonial exchange cycle in Arnhem Land. (With an autograph note signed by Thomson)

    Melbourne : Macmillan & Co., 1949. First edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered burgundy boards (pristine) in pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed, front panel with tiny tear at top edge); front free-endpaper with ownership inscription of Australian archaeologist Isabel McBryde, dated 1950; pp. [vi], 106, with numerous b/w photographic plates, and 2 folding …

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  • Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988

    # 46883

    FORD, Sue (1943-2009)

    Lajamunu women holding discussion with Hazel Hawke at Barunga, Northern Territory, 1988

    Gelatin print, 40 x 60 cm; artist’s proof (from edition of 5); unmounted; fine condition. An important documentary photograph by acclaimed Australian feminist photographer, Sue Ford (1943-2009). Provenance: Gift of Sue Ford to her friend, Virginia Fraser (c.1989). Estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator. For an insightful analysis of Ford’s …

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  • Studio portrait of Turrbal or Jagera men and women. Brisbane, c.1870.

    # 46922

    DUESBURY, Samuel

    Studio portrait of Turrbal or Jagera men and women. Brisbane, c.1870.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 61 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘S. Duesbury, Photographer, Brisbane’; some very pale foxing to the print and the mount. Staffordshire-born photographer Samuel Duesbury was active in Brisbane from 1868. Along with Thomas Bevan, Daniel Marquis, and John Watson, he was one of the four …

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  • Promotional photograph of Aboriginal musician Fred Little, younger brother of renowned Yorta Yorta singer-songwriter Jimmy Little.

    # 46903

    BOOMERANG ENTERTAINMENT

    Promotional photograph of Aboriginal musician Fred Little, younger brother of renowned Yorta Yorta singer-songwriter Jimmy Little.

    Granville, NSW : Boomerang Entertainment Centre, [c.1960]. Black-and-white photograph on glossy paper, 165 x 215 mm, verso with wet stamp of the Boomerang Entertainment Centre, and identifying caption in pen ‘Fred Little’; light creasing and corner wear.    

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  • The Aboriginal invention of television in Central Australia, 1982-1986

    # 47012

    MICHAELS, Eric

    The Aboriginal invention of television in Central Australia, 1982-1986

    Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1986. Quarto (300 x 210 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial stiff wrappers (rubbed); pp. xxii, 159; a very good copy. “Report of the Fellowship to Assess the Impact of Television in Remote Aboriginal Communities”.

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  • Australia : William Blandowski's illustrated encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia

    # 47020

    ALLEN, Harry

    Australia : William Blandowski’s illustrated encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia

    / Edited by Harry Allen. Contributions by Mark Dugay-Grist, Brook Andrew, Luise Hercus and Thomas A. Darragh. Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2011. Large quarto (295 x 240 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed leather boards with pictorial onlay to front; pp. viii, 188, profusely illustrated; a fine copy in the publisher’s pictorial slipcase.

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  • The currency of Aboriginal words in Australian English

    # 46898

    RAMSON, W. S.

    The currency of Aboriginal words in Australian English

    Sydney, NSW : Australian Language Research Centre, University of Sydney, 1964. Occasional Paper no. 3. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), printed blue wrappers sunned at edges), pp. 15, [1]; internally very good.

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  • [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    # 47025

    WURM, S. A. (ed.); BRANDENSTEIN, C. G. von; CAPELL, Arthur; HALE, K.

    [PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.

    Canberra : ANU, 1967. Series: Pacific Linguistics. Series A – Occasional Papers, no. 11. Quarto (255 x 205 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. iii, 73, [3 publisher’s ads.]; includes maps, tables and diagrams; a very good copy. Contains the following papers: C. G. von Brandenstein. The language situation in the Pilbara, past and present. …

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  • Methodist Home Missions Systematic Giving Envelope.

    # 46812

    METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA

    Methodist Home Missions Systematic Giving Envelope.

    [Melbourne : Methodist Home Mission Society, between 1920 and 1930]. Stiff envelope, 112 x 150 mm, recto with map of Australia showing areas where the Home Missions are active (in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and western and northern Queensland), and slogans including ‘This Society seeks the Salvation of men, women and children irrespective of …

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  • Adnyamathanha group, Nepabunna Mission, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, c.1931.

    # 46902

    [Photographer unknown].

    Adnyamathanha group, Nepabunna Mission, northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, c.1931.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 71 x 116 mm; verso with later pencilled annotation ‘Nepabunna Mission area’ (this information was most likely copied from an album mount); fine condition. ‘The Adnyamathanha people were displaced from their traditional lands in the 1850s by pastoralists, no longer able to travel around their lands as before owing to the …

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  • Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    # 47023

    SPENCER, Baldwin

    Native tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia

    London : Macmillan, 1914. First edition. Octavo, original gilt decorated green cloth (very well preserved), top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge uncut, xx, 516 [2] pp, illustrated with 128 plates (8 in colour), folding map, light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary owner’s name to endpaper, bookseller’s label to pastedown, a very good copy.

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  • The native tribes of central Australia

    # 47027

    SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F.J. (Francis James)

    The native tribes of central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938. Second edition, with a preface by J.G. Frazer. Octavo, publisher’s maroon cloth boards, spine with gilt lettering, pp xxiv, 672, illustrated with black and white plates and diagrams (3 folding). [3] folding colour and black and white maps, [4] folding colour plates, contents clean and sound, a very …

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  • The northern tribes of Central Australia

    # 47024

    SPENCER, Baldwin and GILLEN, F. J. (Francis James)

    The northern tribes of Central Australia

    London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1904. Octavo, publisher’s gilt-decorated cloth over boards (edges lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt, bookseller’s label to pastedown, pp xx, 672, illustrated with black-and-white plates and diagrams, folding colour and black-and-white, folding colour plates; lightly foxed.

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