'Native Dwellings'

Original Watercolour
There are four original watercolours within one frame. Titles are as follows

  1. Native hut on Koorong

  2. Encampment of natives on lake.

  3. no data

  4. Bark Hut. Near the light River.



All frames signed by Angas.

Lithograph
The original has been used in Angas's South Australia Illustrated, plate number 32. The title of the watercolour is The Aboriginal Inhabitants and the plates differ;
  1. Hut of the Milmendura tribe, on the Koorung

  2. Native encampment near Lake Albert.

  3. Winter huts on the Lake

  4. Bark hut near the River light.



Two figures and an animal has been added in Frame III.
(Field sketch (pencil) for the man and child in Calvo Collection, National library of Australia. The cloth round his head is not striped.)

Lithographer J W Giles

Former Accession Number 1583

CreatorGeorge French Angas
ControlAA8/2/12/1-4
Quantity   1   Watercolour; 49x33cm; Mount 69x51cm
Series AA8/02