'Native Tombs and Modes of Disposing of their Dead'

Archive Collections / George French Angas / Series AA8/02 / 'Native Tombs and Modes of Disposing of their Dead'

Original Watercolour
One original watercolour within one frame.

  1. Tomb of Moorundee tribe.

  2. Funeral rites. Lake Alexandrina.

  3. Tombs. Lake Albert.

  4. Tomb of a Milmendura warrior. Koorong. April 21, 1844

  5. Tomb of two children on Lake Alexandrina.

  6. Tomb on Lake Alexandrina.

  7. Tomb

  8. Tomb in sheoak tree. Lake Alexandrina.



Frame signed by Angas.

Lithograph
The original has been used in Angas's South Australia Illustrated, plate number 40. The title of the watercolour is the same but the plates differ;
I-VIII (The Aboriginal Inhabitants - Various methods of disposing of the dead - title in text).

Lithographer J W Giles

Former Accession Number 1597

CreatorGeorge French Angas
ControlAA8/2/14
Quantity   1   Watercolour; 49x33cm; Mount 68.5x51cm
Series AA8/02