Images relating to Australian Aboriginal people

Archive Collections / Sir John Burton Cleland / Series AA 60/08 / Images relating to Australian Aboriginal people
Formerly Acc. No. 1663.

The fourth album, formerly Acc. No. 1664, includes the following photographs (some of which were accompanied by negatives - for which see AA 60/10):

  1. nine 177x130 mm black and white photographs of various landscapes marked Acc 1664/3.

  2. nine 177x130 mm black and white photographs various landscapes marked Acc 1664/4.

  3. Two mounted photographs of Australian Aboriginal men inmates at Parkside Lunatic Asylum (currently Glenside Hospital). 1898. Formerly Acc. No. 1664.

  4. Sixteen portraits of Australian Aboriginal men, five mounted portraits of Australian Aboriginan men, four portraits of Australian Aboriginan men, and eight mounted photographs of Australian Aboriginal men. Formerly Acc. No. 1664/234. Correspondence from HT Illingsworth dated 13 July 1923 accompanied by three photographs as follows: 1. "Group of four natives; 2 fullblooded black children; 2 half casts", 2. "Group of 2 native children, ? quartercast mother being half cast and father being full blooded chinaman", 3. "Group of 2 adults and their child (? 3/4 cast). The adults are both half casts"

  5. Close-ups of tribal scarring annotated "Backview herringbone". Australian Aboriginal man annotated "A very old Aboriginal unable to stand without support". Two photographs skull mounted on sticks. Formerly Acc. No. 1664/234.

  6. Leprosy sufferers. Formerly Acc. No. 234. (Not located on reprocessing).

  7. Two photographs Koonibba Mission, annotated "Four generations Lucy about 60, Mandie about 40, Esther about 20, Nelly about 10, Freda about 5 months" and "Head washing at Koonibba" . Formerly Acc. No. 234.

  8. Two photographs Aboriginal rock art (possibly Flinders Ranges). Formerly Acc. No. 234.

  9. Hermannsburg Mission. Formerly Acc. No. 234. (Not located on reprocessing).

  10. 19th century sketches of NSW Aboriginal men and women. Numbered and named as follows "2663 late chief of Broken Bay tribe Sydney", "2664 Botany Bay tribe', "2665 Five Islands tribe", "2666 The native who accompanied Major Mitchell in his expedition to the interior", "2667 Toby Broken Bay tribe", "2668 Tommy Broken Bay tribe", "2669 Gooseberry widow of King Buncaree", "2670 Punch wife of Cullabaa Broken Bay tribe", "2671 Boardman Lake Macquarie tribe", "2672 Cullabaa native of Lake George five Islands tribe", "2673 three unidentified man", "2674 Mickie Lake Macquarie New Castle tribe". Formerly Acc. No. 2147.

  11. Cockatoo Creek Expedition. Photograph 118x165 mm Blood tests and face-casting. 1931. Annotated "Mr Hale (AA 123) and Mr Tindale (AA 338) showing a native the cast they have just taken of his face", two photographs 78x105 mm annotated "Aboriginal infanct depressed fracture found in cliff? SA Ry Src 1927 Dr Hackett (AA 122)" and "Aboriginal mummy depressed fracture in clift? Rv Ry Src NA Dr Hackett"

CreatorSir John Burton Cleland
ControlAA 60/8/4 volume 1
Date Range1923  -  1931
FormatsPhotographic Film Negatives, Loose Photographic Prints, Mounted Photographic Prints
Series AA 60/08