Handwritten note about Australian Aboriginal people in mourning, Ashburton, Western Australia.

Archive Collections / William Blackwood Sanders / Series AA276/2 / Handwritten note about Australian Aboriginal people in mourning, Ashburton, Western Australia.

This item is a torn handwritten note that was previously stuck to the reverse side of a photographic print depicting Australian Aboriginal people in the Ashburton region of Western Australia. A section of the note remains stuck to the photographic print (AA 276/2/4). The note is in Sanders' handwriting and was addressed to Norman Tindale.

It reads:

'Dear Mr Tindale, I do not know if the included photo will be of any interest to you. Natives in mourning, Ashburton District of NW Australia, 1904. I note a gun is in front of paper bark camp. Yours faithfully, WB Sanders'.


The note was written in 1951, when Sanders donated the photograph to the South Australian Museum.

Creator: William Blackwood Sanders
Control: AA 276/2/5
Date Range:  1951  -  1951
Quantity:  0.29cm,   1   note
Formats: Loose Notes
Series:  AA276/2