Aborigine Collection (page 6)

An Aboriginal climbs a tree Date: circa 1900

South Australia, from Flags of All Nations, Series 2 (N10) for Allen &
South Australia, from Flags of All Nations, Series 2 (N10) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands, 1890

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AUSTRALIA Northern Territory Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park Mount Uluru Ayers Rock. Branch of tree in foreground

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AUSTRALIA Northern Territory Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park Mount Uluru Ayers Rock. Branch of tree in foreground. Travel Tourism Holiday Vacation Explore Recreation Leisure Sightseeing Tourist

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AUSTRALIA Northern Territory Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park Mount Uluru People climbing Ayers Rock. Travel Tourism Holiday Vacation Explore Recreation Leisure Sightseeing Tourist Attraction Tour

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AUSTRALIA Northern Territory The Olgas Kata Tjuta National Park The Olgas Kata Tjuta. Travel Tourism Holiday Vacation Explore Recreation Leisure Sightseeing Tourist Attraction Tour Mount Olga Olgas

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AUSTRALIA Northern Territory Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park Mount Uluru People climbing Ayers Rock. Travel Tourism Holiday Vacation Explore Recreation Leisure Sightseeing Tourist Attraction Tour

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AUSTRALIA Northern Territory Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park Mount Uluru Ayers Rock. Travel Tourism Holiday Vacation Explore Recreation Leisure Sightseeing Tourist Attraction Tour Mount Uluru Ayers

An Artesian Bore - New South Wales, Australia. Date: circa 1903

Robins Look-Out, Yeashire, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Robins Look-Out, Yeashire, 1901. The Shire of Yea, northeast of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia was originally inhabited by the Taungurong people

Group of Aboriginal Men, Queensland, Australia, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Group of Aboriginal Men, Queensland, Australia, 1901. From " Federated Australia". [The Werner Company, London, 1901]

Native Sports, Lake Tyers, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Native Sports, Lake Tyers, 1901. Lake Tyers also known as Bung Yarnda was an Aboriginal mission established in 1863 in Victorias Gippsland region. From " Federated Australia"

Back Creek Falls, Buchan River, Victoria, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Back Creek Falls, Buchan River, Victoria, 1901. Settlers first entered the area surrounding Buchan in the late 1830s. The Gunaikurnai people identify the land surrounding Buchan as their traditional

A Winter Scene in New England, 1901. Creator: Unknown
A Winter Scene in New England, 1901. New England or New England North West, an undefined region in the north of New South Wales, occupied by Kamilaroi Indigenous Australians for thousands of years

The Blue Mountains, 1901. Creator: Unknown
The Blue Mountains, 1901. Eucalyptus forests in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney in New South Wales, inhabited for millennia by the Gundungurra people. From " Federated Australia"

Aboriginal woman with child, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Aboriginal woman with child, 1901. From " Federated Australia". [The Werner Company, London, 1901]

In a Queensland Sugar Plantation, 1901. Creator: Unknown
In a Queensland Sugar Plantation, 1901. From " Federated Australia". [The Werner Company, London, 1901]

Femme Australienne Chargee Des Armes De Son Mari, (Austrailan Woman with Husbands Weapons), 1900. From " Autour du Monde - Fascicule XLI". [L. Boulanger, Paris, 1900 ]

Indigene Australien Arme Du Boumerang, (Aborigine armed with a Boomerang), 1900. From " Autour du Monde - Fascicule XLI". [L. Boulanger, Paris, 1900 ]

Femme Australienne Portant Son Enfant, (Australian Woman Carrying her Child), 1900. From " Autour du Monde - Fascicule XLI". [L. Boulanger, Paris, 1900 ]

New South Wales Aborigines - King Billy and his A. D. C. s, c1900. Creator: Unknown
New South Wales Aborigines - Jimmy Clements and his A.D.C. s, c1900. Jimmy Clements (c1847 -1927) was an Aboriginal elder from the Wiradjuri tribe in Australia

An Affray with the Natives, 1923. Creator: Unknown
An Affray with the Natives, 1923. From " Australia, New Zealand and Oceania in Pictures", by H. Clive Barnard, M.A. Blitt. [A. & C. Black, Limited, London, 1923]

Tatkanna seized a fire-stick and made off, 1923. Artist: Raymond Wenban
Tatkanna seized a fire-stick and made off, 1923. How fire was stolen from the red-crested cockatoo. From Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines by WJ Thomas, 1923

Mirram crept silently to the gunyah, 1923. Artist: Raymond Wenban
Mirram crept silently to the gunyah, 1923. How the kangaroo got a long tail, and the wombat a flat forehead; Mirram the kangaroo creeping into Warreen the wombats tent to punish him for his

Rolla-Mano determined to capture them, 1923. Artist: Raymond Wenban
Rolla-Mano determined to capture them, 1923. How the stars were made; Rolla-Mano, the old man of the sea, determines to capture two women he sees in a mangrove swamp

When the strange-looking blackfellows were close to him, Yoonecara released the bandicoot, 1923. The adventurous journey of Yoonecara the headman; Yoonecara, head of the Kamilaroi tribe

Byama threw a spear with all his strength, 1923. Artist: Raymond Wenban
Byama threw a spear with all his strength, 1923. The Legend of the Sacred Bullroarer; Thoorkook fighting Byama. Thoorkook is an evil character who killed Byamas sons

The native companions were dancing, 1923. Artist: Raymond Wenban
The native companions were dancing, 1923. Why the emu has short wings and the native companion a harsh voice. The emu sees many birds dancing

Australian aborigine with a boomerang, c1860s

Australian Aborigines Spearing Fish, 19th century. From The Colonial Portfolio. [The Werner Company, London]

An Australian woman and her children, 1902. Artist: W Lindt
An Australian woman and her children, 1902. From The Living Races of Mankind, Vol. I. [Hutchinson & Co, London, 1902]

A group of some of the last of the Tasmanians in European dress, 1902. Artist: John Watt Beattie
A group of some of the last of the Tasmanians in European dress, 1902. From The Living Races of Mankind, Vol. I. [Hutchinson & Co, London, 1902]

A party of Queensland natives carrying spears and shields, 1902. Artist: Henry King
A party of Queensland natives carrying spears and shields, 1902. From The Living Races of Mankind, Vol. I. [Hutchinson & Co, London, 1902]

Native of Australia, c1885, (1890). Artist: Robert Taylor Pritchett
Native of Australia, c1885 (1890). From Journal of Researchers into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited during the Voyage of H.M.S

Natives Gathered Round Them, c1908, (c1920). Artist: Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton
Natives Gathered Round Them, c1908, (c1920). Captain Matthew Flinders (1774-1814), English navigator and cartographer, who was the first to circumnavigate Australia and identify it as a continent

Tasmanian forest scene, 1879. Artist: McFarlane and Erskine
Tasmanian forest scene, 1879. A print from The History of Australasia, by David Blair, McGrady, Thomson, and Niven, 1879

Aborigines of Australia, 1879. Artist: McFarlane and Erskine
Aborigines of Australia, 1879. A print from The History of Australasia, by David Blair, McGrady, Thomson, and Niven, 1879

A portrait of Lepchas, West Bengal, India, c1910. The Lepcha are the aboriginal inhabitants of present day Sikkim. Many Lepcha are also found in western and southwestern Bhutan

Speared manatee, north-west Australia, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Men of the Never Never land, in totem attire, Australia, 1922. Artist: PJ MacMahon
Men of the Never Never land, in totem attire, Australia, 1922. The tufted sticks rising from the heads of the men in the second row are in the nature of nurtunjas, or totem poles

An emu man performing the sacred totem of his group, Australia, 1922. Artist: Spencer and Gillen
An emu man performing the sacred totem of his group, Australia, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Angaite Indians, North Chaco, Paraguay, 1895. From The Universal Geography with Illustrations and Maps, division XXXVIII, written by Elisee Reclus and published by Virtue & Co. Limited (London, 1895)

Inside a Ticuna hut, South Ameriica, 1895. From The Universal Geography with Illustrations and Maps, division XXXVIII, written by Elisee Reclus and published by Virtue & Co. Limited (London, 1895)

A group of Araucanians, Chile / Argentina, 1895
A group of Araucanians, Chile/Argentina, 1895. From The Universal Geography with Illustrations and Maps, division XXXVI, written by Elisee Reclus and published by Virtue & Co. Limited (London, 1895)

A group of Antis (Ashaninkas), Peru, 1895. The Ashaninka (or Ashaninca) are an indigenous people of who live in the rainforests of Peru and in the State of Acre Brazil

Alakaluf Fuegians, dressed in guanaco skins, Chile, 1895. A guanaco is a South American ruminant mammal, related to and resembling the domesticated llama

A man from the Warramunga tribe making a stone axe head, Australia, 1922. Artist: Spencer and Gillen
A man from the Warramunga tribe making a stone axe head, Australia, 1922. The man is chipping a block of diorite by means of a small lump of hard quartzite

Australian aborigine, 1886. Artist: E Ronjat
Australian aborigine, 1886

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In the 19th century, the British Empire's world map expanded to include Australia, a land rich in culture and history. Among its vibrant traditions were the aborigines, who adorned their surroundings with hand-painted colourful didgeridoos. Picture No. 10766707 captures their artistic prowess beautifully. An antique map of Victoria or Port Phillip (Picture No. 10766504) showcases vignettes that depict scenes from this region's Aboriginal heritage. One can almost imagine dancing figures at Nourlangie Rock, an aboriginal shelter and rock art site nestled within Kakadu National Park. The Dampier Shown Boomerang serves as a testament to the ingenuity of these indigenous people, who crafted tools for survival in harmony with nature, and is a symbol of resilience and resourcefulness. Captain James Cook's historic act of taking possession of New South Wales on behalf of the British Crown in 1770 forever altered the course of Australian history. This event marked a turning point for both colonizers and indigenous populations alike. Another antique map reveals glimpses into South Australia's past through captivating vignettes that pay homage to Aboriginal culture and customs. In Sydney, an Aboriginal Flag Mural stands tall as a powerful reminder of unity and pride among Indigenous Australians. It represents their struggle for recognition and equality throughout history. Truganini remains etched in our collective memory as the last surviving female Tasmanian aborigine—a poignant reminder of loss but also resilience amidst adversity. Australia's Northern Territory holds treasures like Arnhem Land near Mount Borradaile—home to awe-inspiring Aboriginal rock art showcased prominently in Major Art exhibitions—an enduring testament to ancient storytelling traditions passed down through generations. Through these hints from different eras, we catch glimpses into the rich tapestry woven by Australia's original inhabitants—the aborigines—who have left an indelible mark on this vast continent’s history and culture.