Australian Ethnology Photographs in Foreign Museums
W. Australia. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg. B&W photograph. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. 3 Shields.
"Top 3443:07 Albany SW Aust. Hardwood, rather crudely incised. NB Tindale Journ. P673.
Middle 3348:07 Roebuck Bay. Two difft patterns on different faces. See sketch and notes NB Tindale Journ. P675.
Bottom E1316"
W. Australia. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg. B&W photograph. "3 Shields. Albany. Roebuck Bay. 25 Nov 1936. NB Tindale Journ. Pp 673-675.
W. Australia. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg. B&W photograph. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. Necklace, ornament, tjurunga and cylindrical piece of ochre. No. E 34. Necklace of green shells labelled "South Australia" but of Tasmanian type (very old specimen) NB Tindale Journ. P. 671.
3274:07 Shell ornament Roebuck Bay. Journ P. 670-672
E 3093. Tjurunga Hammersley Range "Hairpin used during corroboree". P. 676.
E 3554:07 Cylindroconical piece of red ochre South Australia. Looks like ochre from ochre cove. Journ Pp. 674-677
Australia. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg. B&W photograph. Shields.
No 32.9:20 Broken River Tribe, Victoria. Journ P. 672-73.
No. 32.9:8. 25 Nov 1936. NB Tindale US and Europe Journ, Pp. 670-677.
Australia. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg. B&W photograph. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. 3 Shields. "Mangrove wood shields."
22.25:4 'lilie" NW Aust altered in another hand. S Aust
E 2522 Australia
171:09 Australia altered afterwards to S Aust"
22.25:4 "lilie"
E 2522
171:09 NB Tindale US and Europe Journ, Pp. 673 25 Nov 1936.
Australia. Museum fur Volker Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main. B&W photograph. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. Boomerangs.
NS 11792 Australia "lil-lil"
NS 11790 Australia "lil-lil"
NS 11793 Australia "lil-lil"
NS 9727 Australia "lil-lil"
Australia. Museum fur Volker Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main. B&W photograph.
NS 9732 Victoria
NS 11412 Australia
NS 9728 Central Australia
30 Nov 1936. NB Tindale US and Europe Journ, Pp. 695
Australia. Grassi Museum, Leipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. Boomerangs.
"Tafel XIII.
1. No. Au 566. South Australia. Paris exhibition
2. Au 354. Victoria, von Muller
3. Au 602. New South Wales
4. Au 3. Australia, von Eberstein. See old label on specimen in photo. "Turn round from Van Diemens Land"
Australia. Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands.Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. 2 Boomerangs.
1991/14 length 57 cm. Aranda tribe (Knife edge atoneand for cutting)
396/11 length 58.5 cm Australia
Australia. Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands.B&W photograph. 3 Boomerangs.
2306/3 length 66.5 Kimberley dist NWA (Aranda type very worn and smooth like traded to Arnhem land)
2306/2 Esperance dist WA length 57
2306/4 length 58.5 cm Murchison district
Australia. Grassi Museum, Leipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photo. Adze, chisels and clubs. "Tafel XV.
1., 2., and 3. Adzes Nannie coll by Streich. Nos. Au 240, Au 241, Au 238
4. Australia, Au 590
5. Bowen, Q, Godeffrey, Au 553
6. Victoria, Paris Exhibition, Au 553
7. Murray River, S Aust, Paris Exhibition, Au 555
Australia. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg. B&W photograph. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. Clubs and boomerang.
1. 32.9: 15
2. 32.9: 13
3. 32.9:14
4. 32.9.15 (noted in pencil 'no data in diary' NB Tindale US & Europe Journal P. 669, 25 Nov 1936"
Australia. Stadtisches Volker Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main. B&W photograph. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. Clubs and throwing clubs.
1. NS 17988 Victoria
2. NS 9744 West Australia
3. E 804 NS Wales, gift of Christoph Parrot, 1880
4. E 693 Clarence River, coll by Kirchner of Sydney, 1855
5. NS 9743 [leowel] Australia
6. E 695 Clarence River, coll by Kirchner of Sydney, 1855
7. NS 17988 Victoria (reverse of No. 1)
8. NS 9744 West Australia (reverse of No. 2). NB Tindale US & Europe Journal P. 697, 30 Nov 1936"
Australia. Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands. B&W photograph. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. Boomerang, spear throwers & Shields.
885/4 length 63.5 cm NS Wales, "boorook"
1321/62 length 55.4 cm Perth Dist WA "mihra' Fig d. Arch fur Ethn XVI 111 f 3
Australia. Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands. B&W photograph. Boomerang, spear throwers & Shields
253/119 length 91.5 Australia
396/16 length 89 cm
350/418 length 85.5 Australia
Australia. Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands. B&W photograph. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. Boomerangs.
396/9 length 70.5 Lower Murray "lil-lil" illustrated in Brough Smyth. i. f19.97
350/474 length 69.5 Australia
South Australia. United States National Museum, Washington. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Boomerangs
No. 5634 "Australia" Wilkes Exped has partly legible label ".. Among" This is probably meant for "Ramong" ie tribe at Encounter Bay.
No. 1226 "Australia" W Blackmore "This name and the specimen itself indicate it is from Javalde tribe, Lake Alexandra, SA"
No. 5632 "Australia"
No. 12262 "Australia" W Blackmore. Similar to specimen from Darling-Murray junction"
Australia. Staatl. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Boomerang and bullroarers.
1. VI 17693 Australia (Victoria) "beginning of the 19th century" Missionary Gunther
2. VI 15419
3. VI 8315
4. VI 10488 Murchison River "moor you karr". NB Tindale US & European Journal P. 623 & Pp. 627-628
Australia. Grassi Museum, Leipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Club and spear throwers. Tafel XI
1 Au 3083 Forsyth Island W Schmidt
2 Au 2394 Victoria Sourc e unknown
3 Au 568 Vicgtoria Paris Ausst
4 Au 567 Sud Au Par Ausst
5 Au 520 Darling River Au Jung
6 Au 3088 McLeay River W Schmidt
Australia. Grassi Museum, Leipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Club and spear throwers. Tafel XII. See plate 11 for data.
1 Au 3083 Forsyth Island W Schmidt
2 Au 2394 Victoria Sourc e unknown
3 Au 568 Vicgtoria Paris Ausst
4 Au 567 Sud Au Par Ausst
5 Au 520 Darling River Au Jung
6 Au 3088 McLeay River W Schmidt
Australia. Grassi Museum, Leipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Spear throwers. Tafel XIV
1 King George Sound Klaatch Au 783
2 Nannine Streich Au 211
3 Nannine Streich Au 210
4 Nannine Streich Au 209
Australia. Grassi Museum, Leipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Spears and spear throwers. Tafel XVI
1 Au 741 Coen River, Klaastch
2 Au 774 Cairns, Klaatsch
3 Au 183 Nannie, Streich
4 Au 799 Cairns, Klaatsch
Australia. Stadtisches Volker Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main. 30 Nov 1936. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Spears and spear throwers.
NS 10590 W Australia "Old Man"
NS 10591 New South Wales, no match for spear thrower. Journal P. 694 for sketches
Australia. Stadtisches Volker Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main. 30 Nov 1936. B&W photograph. Spears and spear throwers.
NS 9738 W Aust t data but S Coast NSW type
NS 12779 Southern Australia
NS 16873 "W Aust" incorrectly labled
NS 10592 "NW Aust" in error should be NS Wales"
NS 9737 W Aust t data but S coast of NW type, Journal p. 698.
NB Tindale US & European Journal Pp. 694-698
New South Wales. Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. B&W photograph. Spear throwers.
84576 Spear thrower from New South Wales. Collected by Rev. JW Ogilvie in 1912. Notes see Tindale Journ opp. P. 389
Australia. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg. B&W photograph. Original photos taken for NB Tindale. Spear throwers. (2 photographs)
1 Babinda Creek, Qu (Journ P. 674)
2 "C Aust" but of WA type (Journ P. 671)
3 Port Phillip (very early example), (Journ P. 671)
4 New South Wales (very early example), (Journ P. 671)
5 Maryborough, Qu, (Journ P. 674).
And under top photograph:
1 3514:07
2 3536:07
3 32.9:12
4 E2262
5 3523:07. NB Tindale US & Eur Journ Pp. 671-674, 24 November 1936
N Australia. Colonial Institute, Amsterdam. B&W Photograph. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. Spears.
A734b
A734c
A734a. A&B Gulf of Carpentaria, C. No locality
Australia. Stadtisches Volker Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main. B&W photograph. Axes and Knives.
NS 9741
NS 13761 Australia original specimen, very old primary quartz flakes with definite secondary chipping on one side
NS 25052 (Naluma) Tr Sherlock River polished edge and side
NS 25053 (Naluma) Tr pearl shell oval etched edge flaked to make knife
AG 235 Dieri Tr [jutju wonda] bound with skin of Dasyurus fur side outward. Very old specimen not used today" 1903
Australia. Stadtisches Volker Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main. B&W photograph. Axes and Knives.
NS 16844 Pecked polished axe cane handle, 2 rings of cane; original haft
AG 236 Dieri tribe [kalara] not pecked; ground over whole of face; demonstration haft only
NS 16845 Queensland original haft
AG 237 Dieri tr pecked. NB Tindale US & European Journal Pp. 695-697
Australia. Grassi Museum, Leipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Axes. TAFEL 111.
1 W Aust
2 Bowen
3-4 North Qu
5 ?Bowen
6-7 Bowen Qu
Attached to typescript: "TAFEL 111 und IV. 4 Steinaxte, 3 Steinbeilklingen (Vorder und Ruckseite). 1 Au 1180 West Aust W Schmidt. 2 Au 381 Bowen, Godeffroy. 3 Au 3180 N Queensland, Richer-Kleinwelka. 4 Au 3706 N Queensland. Hintz. 5 Au 619 Bowen ? 6 Au 385 Bowen, Godeffroy. 7 Au 387 Bowen, Godeffroy
Australia. Grassi Museum, Leipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Axes. TAFEL 1V.
W Australia. Muesum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Axes.
32.9:18 Swan River, very old specimen
356:06 no locality Australia. Journ Pp. 669-673
W Australia. Muesum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg. B&W photograph. Axes.
32.9:18 crossed out (in pencil 1.2:31) Swan river
356:06 No locality Australia
W Australia. United States National Museum, Washington. B&W photograph. Axe, Kodj type and ceremonial stick.
No. 366950
No. 59356 Australia Willard Nye. Has a elongate oval flat quartzite hammerstone set in the gum. Photograph missing, marked in pencil "original used for Krdj paper, find and put back here"
Victoria, W Australia. Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. B&W photograph. Axes. NB Tindale Journ P. 389 for notes.
6391 Probably from Victoria. Collected by G Nicalucci. Received from Theodore Lyman 1872
52208 Western Australia
Staatl. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Axes, Adze, crystal and harpoon heads.
VI 4450 Australia granite cutting implement and and hammerstone
VI 866 Rockingham Bay Qu in original haft
centre VI 16057 New Holland, quartz crystal stone and polished chisel at other (in pencil: "images of one modified for SAM")
VI 3640 Laura River New Holland "for drilling" hair string binding.
Harpoon Heads
1 no number
2 VI 4516 Palm Is, Qu
3 VI 4515 Palm Is, Qu. NB Tindale US & European Journal Pp. 625-629
Australia. Museum of Anthropology & Ethnology, University of Cambridge. B&W photograph.
Top. 1907-344 "Stone saw" Western Australia. B von Hugel
Bottom. 1907-343 "Stone saw" Western Australia. B&H (vide Hayter's catalogue p. 24)
Australia. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg. B&W photograph. Axes and knife.
17.89:21 NW Aust original haft. Journ P. 668
E14 Queensland Kaugavon; kin; furside out. Jurn P. 671
E 3347:07 labelled "King George Sound" but is of South east of SA type. Journ P. 668
Queensland. Grassi Museum, Lipzig. B&W photograph. Skin hafted knives. Bowen Qld. Tafel I [Separate list " Tafel I and III. 4 Steinmesser (Vorder- und Ruckseite].
1. Au 390 Bowen, Godeffroy
2. Au 389 Bowen, Godeffroy
3. Messerscheide Au 261b, Bowen, Godeffroy
4. Messerscheide Au 261a, Bowen, Godeffroy
5. Messer Au 262a Scheide Au 262b, Bowen, Godeffroy
NW Australia. Peabody Museum, Harvard Univesity, Cambridge, Mass. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Knives.
D 2690 (or 2960) Stone knife set in gum Qualluana Tribe NWA, collected by E Clement, 1926
D 1736 cutting imlement of pearl shell, Kimberley NAW, coll E Clement, 1922.
W Australia, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands. B&W photograph. Axe, tjurunga and a boomerang.
588/2 length 35 cm. W Aust Genbreak (=? Gembrook?)
1321/48 length 41 cm Tableland WA Indjibandi Tr "Boonangharry" object used in exorcising evil spirits. Int Arch, Ethn xvi Pl 4
1321/32 length 37.6 cm Nukkaginie WA, Gname Tr, "Cujind" or invitation (letter staff)
W Australia, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands. B&W photograph.
2306/5 length 44 cm. Djara Tr, via Hall Creek, NWA
2306/7 length 38.4 Kimberley NWA "Murri-murru"
2306/6 length 27.5, Kimberley NWA "Murri-murru"
NW Australia. Grassi Museum, Lipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. 2 B&W photographs. Tjurunga, wooden. D/2435 Hall Creek, Kimberley, NWA obtained through Mrs W Badenach in 1924.
TAFEL XVIII. Top.
1. Au 97 Sherlok coll by Clement
2. Au 323 Nannine coll by Streich
3. Au 307 Nannine coll by Streich
4. Au 309 Nannine coll by Streich
5. Au 293 Nannine coll by Streich
6. Au 300 Nannine coll by Streich
7. Au 302 Nannine coll by Streich
Middle.
1. Au 291 Nannine coll by Streich
2. Au 301 Nannine coll by Streich
3. Au 317 Nannine coll by Streich
Bottom
1. Au 318 Nannine coll by Streich
2. Au 311 Nannine coll by Streich
3. Au 306 Nannine coll by Streich
4. Au 319 Nannine coll by Streich
5. Au 322 Nannine coll by Streich
6. Au 312 Nannine coll by Streich
7. Au 308 Nannine coll by Streich
8. Au 290 Nannine coll by Streich
W Australia. Grassi Museum, Lipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Tjurunga.
TAFEL V
1. Nannine W Australia No. Au 280
2. Nannine W Australia No. Au 272
3. Nannine W Australia No. Au 279
4. W Australia No. Au 636
5. W Australia No. Au 637
Australia. Staatl Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin. B&W photograph. Skin Cloaks.
VI 2580
VI 599
W Australia, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Shell ornaments. 1321/38, 1321/36, 1321/37. Loc W Australia, "Maratunia Tr", (ie Mardudunera Tr, SW of Roebourne)
Australia. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg. 2 B&W photographs. Original photos taken for NB Tindale. Softwood water vessel. No 35.70:2 Moreton Bay, Queensland, a rather old specimen. NB Tindale US&Europe Journ 25 Nov 1936, P. 677
Queensland. Grassi Museum, Lipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Dishes wooden. TAFEL VII.
Above: Queensland No, Au 478 coll by Godeffrey
Below: Bowen, Queensland No, Au 476 coll by Godeffrey
New South Wales. Peabody Museum, Harvard Univesity, Cambridge, Mass. B&W photograph. Dish palm leaf. 50785 Palmleaf vessel used for carrying water from New South Wales, purchased 1891 AP Godwin. NBT Journ P. 389
Tasmania. Grassi Museum, Lipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. 2 B&W photographs Attached to typescript: Baskets TAFEL VIII side view and TAFEL IX bottom view. Left No Au 2270 Tasmania, W Schmidt; Right No Au 2269 Tasmania, W Schmidt
NOTE: TAFEL VIII & IX. 2 Kurbchen (Vorder-und ruckseite). Links grosserer. Au 2270, Tasmania, W Schmidt. Rechts Kleinerer Au 2269, Tasmania, W Schmidt
Australia, New Britain, Andamans. Stadtisches Volker Museum, Frankfurtam-Main. Original photos taken for NB Tindale. 2 B&W photographs. Baskets.
AG 215 Dieri Tr, AG 214 Dieri. Collected by O Siebert, mixture of German and Dieri work, probably not native.
NS 23750 Baining, New Britain, NS 26357 Andaman Islands. NB Tindale US&Europe Journ 30 Nov 1936, P. 699
Staatl. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin. B&W photograph. Basket of kempe grass. VI 35602. Hermannsburg Tr Zrakaguka, Aranda Tr. Made from kempe grass
New South Wales. Stadtisches Volker Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main. Original photos taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Basket. NS 675. Clarence River NSW, Coll by Kirchner of Sydney 1855. "made of wires, are the only kind of basket work of the natives (of the Clarence River)
New South Wales. Peabody Museum, Harvard Univesity, Cambridge, Mass. B&W photograph. Original photos taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. 50619 New South Wales
Queensland, United States National Museum, Washington, DC. Original photos taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Satchel or bag. No. 1535 Morton Bay Qu, CR Raymond
Queensland, Museum fur Volkerkunda, hamburg. DC. Original photos taken for NB Tindale.
Cradel and adze. [pencil note] 'post war letter regret photo destroyed'. 2 B&W photographs. Basket ware cradle. 35.79:3 Queensland (apparently S Qu) ornamented with nautilis shell and grass bugle beads painted red in bands. An associated photograph in M fur V shows women wearing skin cloak and carrying baby in it on her back. NB Tindale Journ P. 677.
Adze; hafted stone No. 32.9:61. Pondie, SW Qu pres by J Mockton Brown collected before 1861. NB Tindale Journ P. 671. Drawing marked "Section)
Australia, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. 2 B&W photographs. Baskets
350/431 Richmond River, NSW
295/70 Australia
Queensland, United States National Museum, Washington, DC. B&W photographs. Baskets
344740 Murray Mouth,
344739 Apsley, Vic,
263446 Pt McLeay. NB Tindale Journ P. 337. 28 Sept 1936
Australia, United States National Museum, Washington, DC. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photographs. Baskets
80.0/4588 Probably SE Aust.
S/3363 Lake Alexandrina, SA.
80.0/4589 Probably SE Aust
Australia, United States National Museum, Washington, DC. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. 2 B&W photographs. Baskets, side view and bottom.
80.0/4590
80/4587. Probably SE Aust
Queenslad. Grassi Museum, Lipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Basket. Tafel X. Ventral view of Au 63 Queensland, Felix
Staatl. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. 2 B&W photographs. Basket.
No. VI 2543 Victoria
VI 10494 Gippsland
Staatl. Museum fur Volkerkunde, Berlin. Original photo taken for NB Tindale 2 B&W photographs.
Baskets VI 2287a Lake Alexandrina, 1879, VI 2287b Lake Alexandrina, 1879
Basket fishing trap VI 12006 Victoria, length c. 8 Feet. NB Tindale Journ Pp. 625-627
South Australia, United States National Museum, Washington, DC. B&W photograph. Belt plaited rush. Plaited rush belt approx 6 feet in length such as used to tie on cloaks. Specimen no 263468 Point Mt Leay SA, collected by Ambrose Redman (of Kingston, S Aust)
Australia. Volker Museum, Frankfurter-am-Main. Original photo taken for NB Tindale 2 B&W photographs. Shields.
NS9772
NS 23735 Australia, probably from near Melbourne, coll Reyhe c 1890
NS 9771
NS 9775
NS 9774. NB Tindale US & Europe Journ Pp. 695 etc 30 Nov 1936
W Australia. Grassi Museum, Lipzig. Original photo taken for NB Tindale. B&W photograph. Shields, wooden
1. NW Australia, Indjibandi Tr No Au 3604
2. Nannine, W Aust No Au 4