Contemporary captions are pencilled on the blank versos, for example '114 [later crossed out] Kaitish woman / Barrow Creek/ 1901' and 'Urabanna [Arabana] man / The Peake / 1902'. Minute pinholes in most corner tips; trifling surface chips to a few edges; in excellent condition. More
[South Australia? Unknown Photographer, circa 1870s?]. The group comprises seventeen men and a boy dressed in typical bush garb of the period (two of the men and the boy are Indigenous), and two white children (a lad on a horse, and a young girl, both a little less casually attired)..... More
The subject, photographer, location and date are unknown, but we suggest South or Central Australia in the 1920s. More
The details of the photographer, 'Chas P. Scott, Waymouth Street, Adelaide', are blindstamped in the bottom right-hand corner of the mat. Charles Scott (1878-1928) is listed as a photographer at that address in South Australian directories 'from 1909 to 1915+' (Photohistory SA website). We have previously handled another example of..... More
Unley, Chas P. Scott, [circa 1900s]. Charles Scott (1878-1928) is 'Listed as photographer at 21A Waymouth Street, Adelaide, in directories from 1909 to 1915+, his "private residence" being given as 10 Grace Street, Goodwood Park' (Photohistory SA website). The Art Gallery of SA gives the date '1903-04' for this image..... More
[Unley, Chas P. Scott, circa 1900s]. We purchased this item with a similar portrait of a young Indigenous boy (captioned 'Jacky - Oodnadatta'), blindstamped with the photographer's details ('Chas P. Scott | Unley S.A.'). The Art Gallery of SA dates that image '1903-04'. We have no hesitation in attributing this..... More
Neither the subject nor the photographer are identified (or known to us). The photograph may have been taken in South Australia, where it surfaced over 20 years ago; we suggest it dates from the 1890s. More
The original gelatin silver portrait photograph (visible image size 313 × 237 mm) is behind glass in the original polished wooden frame (external dimensions 525 × 450 mm). We have no details about the photographer, the child, or where and when the photograph was taken, but we suggest somewhere in..... More
A detailed description of a close variant of this photograph is to be found in Mountford's magnum opus, 'Nomads of the Australian Desert' (1976). In his account of his 1940 Central Australian expedition with Lauri Sheard (see pages 76-77), he writes that 'when travelling with the desert nomads along the..... More
The verso of the mount contains a slightly different caption in Mountford's hand: 'A stone supposed to be the head of a poisonous Snake. Rubbing the stone causes sickness to one's Enemys [sic]. Ayers Rock'. The amendments appearing in the typed version are also pencilled in here. There are two..... More
[New Guinea, Unknown Photographer, circa 1930s?]. Two photographs show ornately decorated men in a village. The other one features two young girls in grass skirts holding posies (or something similar); the word 'lusious [sic]' is written in ink on the verso. A fourth snapshot (64 × 108 mm, on 'Velox'..... More
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Sydney, Sungravure, 1978. 'In March 1978 "Stern" magazine in Germany published a sumptuous sixteen-page spread on secret-sacred Aranda ceremonies [including] eight colour photographs displaying Aboriginal men in ceremony.... Strehlow had provided "Stern" with 211 colour slides and 78 black-and-white photographs. The selection from which the editors had made such a...... More
George Taplin (1831-1879), missionary and teacher, began his work with the Ngarrindjeri in April 1859; the 'site he chose for a settlement on the shores of Lake Alexandrina was a traditional camping ground called Raukkan (The Ancient Way), known to Europeans as Point McLeay.... Keenly interested in Ngarrindjeri culture and..... More
Adelaide, E. Spiller, Acting Government Printer, 1879. The original photographs that illustrate the book are almost certainly the work of Captain Samuel Sweet (see Robert Holden: 'Photography in Colonial Australia. The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book', 1988). We have handled a number of copies of this work, and this..... More