Described by Andrew Sayers 'Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century':

1.       An envelope with ‘MAJESTY’S SERVICE.’ printed in the Upper left. Inscribed ‘aboriginal drawings/Miss Watson/(c/o Alfred Searcy, Esq) Parliament house/Adelaide/with thanks’ dated 26/10/1909.

 2.       An envelope inscribed upper left ‘aboriginal drawings./from mr sowden.’ Formerly Accession No. 2377.

3.       An envelope inscribed upper centre ‘Drawings by an Aboriginal./Marked NRS. 1-5’ formerly Accession No. 2377.

 4.       An envelope inscribed upper centre ‘aboriginals/24 drawings by an aboriginal’. Formerly Accession No. 2377.

• a = front

• b = back
  
  5a. Horseman bailing up distant figures

5b. Stockman collecting water from a tank 10.5x16.7 cm

6a. Dozing horsemen; two men in a conversation.

6b. Interior with a man and a woman visiting a bedridden man; ship’s prow. 10.5x16.7 cm

7a. Horseman looking over cliff.

7b. Horseman in a landscape.

8a. Horsemen in front of a boulder. 10.5x16.7 cm.

8b. Horseman on a hill. Inscribed right side ‘flan’. 10.5x16.7 cm

9a. Two stockmen conversing.

9b. Horse. 10.5x16.7 cm

10a. Horseman among trees.

10b. Erecting a tent. 10.5x16.7 cm

11a. Horsemen in a landscape; street [?] with figures. 10.5x16.7 cm.

11b. Stockman with cattle

12a. Ships prow: landscape motifs; geometric figures.

12b. Three Buildings

13a. Steamer; stockyard and a man sitting in a landscape.

13b. Steep-sided hill

14a. Steamer  

14b. Steamer

15a. House.

15b. Stockman riding a bucking horse

16a. Stockyard with a man sitting beneath a tree. 10.5x16.7 cm.

16b. Steamer sailing up a river; unidentified motif.

17a. Stockyard with a man sitting beneath a tree.

17b. Steamer sailing along a coast; humorous figure

18a. Steamer, landscape.

18b. House

19a. Bearded man in a tent. 10.5x16.7 cm.

19b. Man sitting outside house with a pipe

20a. Horseman; various heads

20b. Horseman by a cliff. Inscribed lower centre ‘harry’.  

21a. Horse

21b. House

22a. Man in a slab hut playing cards.

22b. Horseman jumping a gully; various heads. Inscribed lower left ‘Harry’.

23a. Horseman with a whip; two heads and an aboriginal boy.

23b. Farm building; bearded man.

24a. Humorous drawing, spectators watching a foot race. 10.5x16.7 cm

24b. Landscape and bearded head. 10.5x16.7 cm

25a. Two stockmen and their camp. 10.5 x 16.7cm

25b. Horseman jumping a gully. Inscribed lower left ‘S[?] – B-‘ lower right ‘1892’.  

26a. Landscape

26b. House, bearded man

27a. Farm building, Flora valley. Inscribed upper right ‘FLORA-VALLEY’. 10.5x16.7 cm

27b. Wave Hill homestead. Inscribed upper centre ‘Wave Hill HomEsta’; left [on a tree in composition] ‘1883’.

28a. Victoria River Downs homestead. Inscribed centre ‘victoria homesta’. 10.5x16.7 cm

28b. Steamer

29a. Negri homestead. Inscribed centre ‘Negri homesta’. 10.5x16.7 cm.

29b. Verso: station buildings. 10.5x16.7 cm

30a. Acrobats, stilt-walkers and clowns. 10.5x16.7 cm.

30b. Humorous characters; horseman on a bucking horse

31a. Stockyard. Inscribed ‘RaCh-DOWN-FoaM creek/day’. 10.5x16.7 cm.

31b. Verso: house with telegraph wires; man camping. 10.5x16.7 cm

32a. Steamer. 10.5x16.7 cm.

32b. Steamer.

33a. Richmond Downs homestead (?). Inscribed centre ‘rachman Down HomEsta’. 10.5x16.7 cm.

33b. Homestead; fragment of a landscape. Inscribed upper left ‘hom’; upper right ‘creek’.

34a. Drawing of the front of Fannie Bay Gaol. Inscribed centre ‘long fellow/WaVE STaTaY’. 10.5x16.7 cm.

34b. Mount Long. Inscribed centre ‘Mount Long’.

35a. Station building.

35b. Station outbuildings.

36a. House; Aboriginal man in striped coat; Aboriginal man seated in front of wall; horse..

36b. Buildings.

37a. Steamer.

37b. Homestead’ heads. 11.5x18cm

38a. Steamer.

38b. Stockyard.

39a. Steamer.

39b. Horse.

40a. Facades of buildings in a town, a head

40b. Homestead buildings.

41a. Facades of buildings in a town.

41b. Station landscape.

42a. Fragment 10.5x33.3 cm.

42b. Fragment. 10.4 x 33.3 cm

43a. City buildings.

43b. Town buildings

44a. Homestead buildings 10.4 x 33.3 cm.

44b. Station buildings and landscape.

45a. Farm buildings. Various inscriptions some illegible: ‘charlie/Boss/Boy/Flann’.
10.5 x 33.3 cm  

45b. Fragment 10.5 x 33.3 cm