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Aborigine-2. Image from Zeno.org
Aborigine. Image from Zeno.org
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Aboriginal Australian in 1965 detail, from- Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree, February 1965 - The Tribune (20153364632) (cropped)

Aboriginal Australian in 1965 detail, from- Charles Perkins talking wi...

Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree in Australia Deutsch: Der Aboriginalaktivist Charles Perkins im Gespräch mit Aboriginal-Einwohnern in Moree in Australien Can you h... More

Aboriginal Australians in 1965 detail, from- Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree, February 1965 - The Tribune (20153364632) (cropped)

Aboriginal Australians in 1965 detail, from- Charles Perkins talking w...

Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree in Australia Deutsch: Der Aboriginalaktivist Charles Perkins im Gespräch mit Aboriginal-Einwohnern in Moree in Australien Can you h... More

Aborigines day of mourning, Sydney, 26 January 1938 (2868759783)

Aborigines day of mourning, Sydney, 26 January 1938 (2868759783)

Format: Photomechanical half-tone print Notes: For the first time, Australian Aborigines protested their treatment. "WE APPEAL to the Australian Nation of to-day ... for FULL CITIZEN STATUS and EQUALITY WITHIN... More

Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree, February 1965 - The Tribune (20153364632)

Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree, February 1...

Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins talking with Aboriginal residents at Moree in Australia Deutsch: Der Aboriginalaktivist Charles Perkins im Gespräch mit Aboriginal-Einwohnern in Moree in Australien Can you h... More

Freedom riders at Bowraville (20715203332)

Freedom riders at Bowraville (20715203332)

Can you help identify the people and places documented in this photograph? [L to R:] Gerry Mason, Pat Healy, Sue Reeves, Charles Perkins, Ray Leppik, Bob Gallagher, Ann Curthoys, John Butterworth, Norm McKay, A... More

HODGSON(1846) Australia - Public domain historical image
Douglas Thomas Kilburn - Three Aboriginal men, Melbourne, Victoria - Google Art Project

Douglas Thomas Kilburn - Three Aboriginal men, Melbourne, Victoria - G...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis J Gillen - Arrernte welcoming dance, entrance of the strangers, Alice Springs, Central Australia, 9 May 1901 - Google Art Project

Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis J Gillen - Arrernte welcoming dance...

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis J Gillen - Young Anmatyerr man, Barrow Creek, Central Australia, 1901 - Google Art Project
Walter Baldwin Spencer and Francis J Gillen - Young Jingili woman with plaited hair, Powell Creek, Central Australia, September-October 1901 - Google Art Project
Douglas T. Kilburn - No title (Group of Koorie men) - Google Art Project

Douglas T. Kilburn - No title (Group of Koorie men) - Google Art Proje...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a daguerreotype portrait, early photography, 19th century, Victorian style, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

055 Dinjimanne wife daughter w480

055 Dinjimanne wife daughter w480

Dinjimanne his wife and daughter, Giles West Camp, South of Mt Woodroffe, south-central Musgrave Ranges, South Australia, 1903Deutsch: Dinjimanne mit Frau und Tochter im Giles-West-Camp 1903

186 Aboriginal dwellings w480

186 Aboriginal dwellings w480

Aboriginal dwellings, Hermannsburg, Northern Territory 1923

Arrernte boy with toy shield

Arrernte boy with toy shield

Arrernte boy holding toy shield, Alberga River, South Australia 1920–24Deutsch: Kind der Arrernte mit Holzschwert und Schild am Alberga River, Südaustralien (1920–24).

Arrernte man with badly united fracture, Henbury station, Northern Territory, photograph by H. Basedow

Arrernte man with badly united fracture, Henbury station, Northern Ter...

Original caption: "Arrernte man with badly united fracture, Henbury station, Northern Territory."

Boys in dugout - A black and white photo of a group of people in canoes

Boys in dugout - A black and white photo of a group of people in canoe...

Boys in a dugout and two bark canoes, Apsley Strait, with Melville Island in the distance, Northern Territory.

Cape Dombey people - A group of men standing next to each other

Cape Dombey people - A group of men standing next to each other

Aboriginal people at Cape Dombey, north of Port Keats, Northern Territory.

Children resting on a mangrove stump while bathing

Children resting on a mangrove stump while bathing

Children resting on a mangrove stump while bathing, Sunday Island, Western Australia, May 1916. Photo: Herbert Basedow. Reproduced from film negative.

Different methods of hair dressing - NMA-11787

Different methods of hair dressing - NMA-11787

Men displaying different methods of dressing their hair (Cambridge Gulf, Western Australia).

Expedition guides next to wet-weather huts - NMA-156838

Expedition guides next to wet-weather huts - NMA-156838

Depending on where they lived, Arnhem Land people might only move camps two or three times a year. They would spend the dry season (the middle of the calendar year) in lower areas including flood plains and the... More

Fort Hill, Darwin, Northern Territory, photograph by H. Basedow
Girl tobogganing down a granite slope, photograph by H. Basedow

Girl tobogganing down a granite slope, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Girl tobogganing down a granite slope."

Group of people, seated - NMA-11960

Group of people, seated - NMA-11960

Basedow photographed this group of people at Mount Currie, to the north-west of the Olgas (Kuta Tjuta), in 1926. On this trip Basedow's party were travelling by camel. The two groups camped near one another and... More

Hut Eastern Arrernte Basedow

Hut Eastern Arrernte Basedow

Hut decked with porcupine grass, Eastern Arrernte people, Arltunga district, Northern Territory.

Kai Kai Western Arrernte

Kai Kai Western Arrernte

Deutsch: Kai Kai, a Western Arrernte man, Henbury station, Northern Territory, 1920English: This Western Arrernte man's name was Kai Kai (in Basedow's spelling) and Basedow photographed him in the Aboriginal ca... More

Kolaia man - A man in a giraffe hat doing a yoga pose

Kolaia man - A man in a giraffe hat doing a yoga pose

Kolaia man wearing a headdress worn in a fire ceremony, Forrest River, Western Australia.

Man and Woman - NMA-11873

Man and Woman - NMA-11873

A man and woman facing each other but the man turns his head to face the camera. Both wear a loin cloth. The man holds a cigarette? and has scarification on his body. There is a pleated bark container at the wo... More

Man scraping a boomerang with a sharp stone flake, photograph by H. Basedow

Man scraping a boomerang with a sharp stone flake, photograph by H. Ba...

Original caption: "Man scraping a boomerang with a sharp stone flake."

Man with a spear-thrower, photograph by H. Basedow

Man with a spear-thrower, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Man with a spear-thrower."

Men and boys playing a game of gorri - NMA-11726

Men and boys playing a game of gorri - NMA-11726

All over Aboriginal Australia, men, youths and sometimes boys play games where they try to spear moving targets. Often the targets are round discs of bark. In the Humbert River area two sides take it in turns t... More

Men showing their scars - NMA-12011

Men showing their scars - NMA-12011

Showing three standing Aboriginal men viewed from behind; all show prominent cicatrices (body scars); the man in the centre also wears a waist band and a string necklace (Port George IV, Western Australia).

Mother and child - NMA-11872

Mother and child - NMA-11872

Mother and child, Sunday Island, Western Australia. Public domain photograph of family portrait, mother and child, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Native raft called kaloa - NMA-11791

Native raft called kaloa - NMA-11791

Native raft called kaloa, on George Water W.A..

Natives spearing fish - NMA-11825

Natives spearing fish - NMA-11825

Kakatu natives spearing fish in a billabong (East Alligator River, Northern Territory).

Old man in front of his hut, photograph by H. Basedow

Old man in front of his hut, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Old man in front of his hut."

Old man with a fan to keep flies away, photograph by H. Basedow

Old man with a fan to keep flies away, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Old man with a fan to keep flies away."

Old woman in mourning, photograph by H. Basedow

Old woman in mourning, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Old woman in mourning."

Pandanus basedowii - A black and white photo of a tree in the desert

Pandanus basedowii - A black and white photo of a tree in the desert

Pandanus basedowii, northern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.

Portrait of a man with long hair and painted markings, photograph by H. Basedow

Portrait of a man with long hair and painted markings, photograph by H...

Original caption: "Portrait of a man with long hair and painted markings."

Portrait of two men, photograph by H. Basedow

Portrait of two men, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Portrait of two men."

Rock carvings - NMA-144270

Rock carvings - NMA-144270

Rock carvings. A very definite picture of a lizard fully 60cm long stands out boldly (Deception Creek, Red Gorge, Flinders Ranges, South Australia).

Rock carvings, photograph by H. Basedow

Rock carvings, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Rock carvings."

Rock engraving of human form - NMA-11812

Rock engraving of human form - NMA-11812

Showing rock engraving of human form (North Western Australia).

Rock paintings - NMA-11802

Rock paintings - NMA-11802

Aboriginal people painted on rock surfaces using four main colours - red, yellow, black and white. Only rarely were other colours employed. Red, yellow and white come from rocks and clay, and black often from c... More

Showing method of attack with boomerang - NMA-15147

Showing method of attack with boomerang - NMA-15147

Luritja man demonstrating method of attack with boomerang under cover of shield. An indigenous man with headdress and body paint is posing with a boomerang in his hand raised behind his head, with a shield and ... More

Sunday Islanders on board - NMA-13594

Sunday Islanders on board - NMA-13594

Original caption: "Sunday Islanders (Ikey, Teddy and Jacky) on board the 'Rita', as members of the crew (Western Australia)."

Two men demonstrating the use of spear-thowers, photograph by H. Basedow
Two men with wooden hair ornaments, spears and shields, photograph by H. Basedow

Two men with wooden hair ornaments, spears and shields, photograph by ...

Original caption: "Two men with wooden hair ornaments, spears and shields."

Victor Trumper - 1890s - An old photo of a man holding a bat

Victor Trumper - 1890s - An old photo of a man holding a bat

Victor Trumper - 1890s, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia

Week-old baby asleep in a wooden container, photograph by H. Basedow

Week-old baby asleep in a wooden container, photograph by H. Basedow

Original caption: "Week-old baby asleep in a wooden container."

William Gilbert Grace - 1890s

William Gilbert Grace - 1890s

William Gilbert Grace - 1890s, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, Australia

Wogait people, Anson Bay

Wogait people, Anson Bay

Men, possibly of the Wogait people, Anson Bay, Northern Territory probably 1905.Original caption: "Preparing for an emu hunt"

Woman painted with pipe-clay, photograph by H. Basedow
Woman with a pet possum on her head - NMA-11728

Woman with a pet possum on her head - NMA-11728

This is a Pongaponga woman from western Arnhem land. She carries, suspended from her head, a basket or bag for holding the food she has gathered. And she has a pet ring-tailed possum, which she carries on her h... More

Women carrying baskets - NMA-12829

Women carrying baskets - NMA-12829

Two women carrying large plaited baskets suspended from a band around their heads. One of the women is also carrying a child. (Liverpool River, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory).

Women carrying water - NMA-12516

Women carrying water - NMA-12516

Women carrying water, Wadaman people, Northern Territory.

Children Boggabilla Station, New South Wales

Children Boggabilla Station, New South Wales

Children outside some of the 27 houses at Boggabilla Station, November 1952, Pix magazine photograph, silver gelatin negative, State Library of New South Wales ON 388/Box 038/Item 050

Face detail, from- Towtrer Tasmanian Aboriginal by W B Gould 1833 (cropped) (cropped)

Face detail, from- Towtrer Tasmanian Aboriginal by W B Gould 1833 (cro...

Towtrer Chief of the Port Davey Tribe, Tasmania, c.1933, W.B. Gould, State Library of New South Wales V/91}

Cobbo, Daniel. Member of the Australian Light Horse, 1917

Cobbo, Daniel. Member of the Australian Light Horse, 1917

Cobbo, Daniel. Member of the Australian Light Horse, 1917 Public domain photograph related to Queensland, Australia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eliza Fraser portrait - Public domain portrait engraving

Eliza Fraser portrait - Public domain portrait engraving

Portrait sketch of Eliza Fraser. Public domain photograph related to Queensland, Australia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

George of Saxby Downs with his wife at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement 1909

George of Saxby Downs with his wife at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement ...

George of Saxby Downs with his wife at Barambah Aboriginal Settlement 1909

StateLibQld 1 395129 Quiet reach of the Lower Tully River, ca. 1910

StateLibQld 1 395129 Quiet reach of the Lower Tully River, ca. 1910

Quiet reach of the Lower Tully River, ca. 1910 A man is rowing a boat with two Aboriginal boys standing and looking ahead.

StateLibQld 1 81419 Native house being constructed on Darnley Island, Torres Strait, 1899

StateLibQld 1 81419 Native house being constructed on Darnley Island, ...

Native house being constructed on Darnley Island, Torres Strait, 1899 Darnley Island is also known as Erub. This image shows the house during the framing construction.

StateLibQld 1 90776 Bowen re-enactment, 1951

StateLibQld 1 90776 Bowen re-enactment, 1951

Bowen re-enactment, 1951 Group of Aborigines holding spears are standing on a beach as part of a re-enactment of the establishment of Bowen in 1861. (Description supplied with photograph.).

StateLibQld 2 143847 Bernice Bagwivi

StateLibQld 2 143847 Bernice Bagwivi

Bernice Bagwivi at the age of 21 in 1935. Public domain photograph related to Queensland, Australia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ19500011

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographi...

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië Public domain scan of zoological print or book illustration, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ19500015

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographi...

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië Public domain scan of zoological print or book illustration, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ19500019

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographi...

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië Public domain scan of zoological print or book illustration, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ19500023

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographi...

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië Public domain scan of zoological print or book illustration, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ19500106

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographi...

Homo sapiens - Aboriginal, Australië Public domain scan of zoological print or book illustration, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Nanjō Bun'yū 4 - Imperial Japan

Nanjō Bun'yū 4 - Imperial Japan

日本語: 日本の仏教学者・真宗大谷派の僧の南条文雄。 English: Nanjō Bun'yū, a Japanese buddhist studies scholar and Shin buddhist monk.

JayCreekNorthernTerritory1947 - A black and white photo of a group of people

JayCreekNorthernTerritory1947 - A black and white photo of a group of ...

Jay Creek, west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia

A view of Botany Bay A1475003h - Public domain  engraving

A view of Botany Bay A1475003h - Public domain engraving

Engraving depicting First Fleet arriving at Botany Bay in January 1788, with Indigenous Australians in canoes witnessing the arrival. Bare Island is in the background. From The voyage of Governor Phillip to Bo... More

Aboriginal child asleep in a wooden dish, central Australia, ca. 1940s (8718150313)

Aboriginal child asleep in a wooden dish, central Australia, ca. 1940s...

Mountford, Charles P. (Charles Pearcy), 1890-1976. Title devised by cataloguer from inscription.; In album: Central Australia photograph album.; Inscriptions: "Native child asleep in wooden dish"--Below image.;... More

Humpy en route to Fish Creek near Oenpelli, Northern Territory, 2 October 1948 - Robert Miller (19741114619)

Humpy en route to Fish Creek near Oenpelli, Northern Territory, 2 Octo...

Miller, Robert Rush, 1916-2003 Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription and accompanying documentation.; Part of the collection: American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land, Northern Territ... More

Mother and child, South Australia, ca. 1870 (8718150535)

Mother and child, South Australia, ca. 1870 (8718150535)

Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription.; Inscriptions: "Lubra and piccaninni, South Australia"--Below image.; Also online an24652971. an24652971

Group of Aboriginals at Chowilla Station on the lower Murray River, South Australia (6174049594)

Group of Aboriginals at Chowilla Station on the lower Murray River, So...

Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897 Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription beneath photograph.; In: Views of scenery on the Darling & Lower Murray during the flood of 1886.; Inscriptions: "Group of Aboriginal... More

Group of Aboriginals at Dunlop Station homestead, Darling River, New South Wales (6173515807)

Group of Aboriginals at Dunlop Station homestead, Darling River, New S...

Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897 Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription beneath photograph.; In: Views of scenery on the Darling & Lower Murray during the flood of 1886.; Inscriptions: "Group of Aboriginal... More

Aboriginal slaves Rottnest 1883
Haddon-Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits-Vol 1 General Ethnography-p453

Haddon-Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres S...

Excerpt from "Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Volume 1: General Ethnography" by Alfred C. Haddon. Full book in PDF format:File:Haddon-Reports of the Cambridge Anthropolog... More

Plantation owner with his wife and servants (8415569369)

Plantation owner with his wife and servants (8415569369)

Creator: Unknown Date: c. 1856 Format: Photograph; collodion positive / ambrotype Collection: Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum Inventory no: 1990-5036/CD6 Blog: Happy Australia Day A collodion posi... More

Aboriginal Australians of Port Phillip, Victoria

Aboriginal Australians of Port Phillip, Victoria

Pl. no. XV of: Sketches in Australia and the adjacent islands / by Harden S. Melville. Inscription: "Natives of Port Philip"--Printed below image.

Nicolas-Martin Petit New Holland-Mororé

Nicolas-Martin Petit New Holland-Mororé

Deutsch: Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777–1804), Teilnehmer der Baudin-Expedition nach Australien (1800–1804): Cour-Rou-Bari-Gal, junger Aborigine, Neuholland (Australien). Muséum d’histoire naturelle du Havre. Vgl.... More

Nicolas-Martin Petit Tasmanierin mit Kind in Känguruhaut

Nicolas-Martin Petit Tasmanierin mit Kind in Känguruhaut

Deutsch: Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777–1804): Tasmanierin mit Kind in Känguruhaut (Ausschnitt), Muséum Le Havre, Inv.-Nr. 20022-3. Der Künstler war Mitglied der französischen Australien-Expedition (1800–1804) unt... More

Nicolas-Martin Petit Tasmanierin mit Kind in Känguruhaut grösserer Ausschnitt

Nicolas-Martin Petit Tasmanierin mit Kind in Känguruhaut grösserer Aus...

Deutsch: Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777–1804): Tasmanierin mit geschorenem Haar und mit Kind in Känguruhaut (Ausschnitt), Muséum Le Havre, Inv.-Nr. 20022-3. Der Künstler war Mitglied der französischen Australien-E... More

Stone circles near Mount Elephant 1877

Stone circles near Mount Elephant 1877

Print of an illustration by J. W. Curtis

'Our Corroboree' and 'Gathering Oysters', Sydney Harbour (8724030773)

'Our Corroboree' and 'Gathering Oysters', Sydney Harbour (8724030773)

This image belongs to a photograph album relating to Edward Hungerford. The album contains images of shipping and street scenes around Sydney from the 1880s, most of which appear to have been taken by photogra... More

Aboriginal people in bark canoes, location unknown (7298775980)

Aboriginal people in bark canoes, location unknown (7298775980)

This photo is part of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s William Hall collection. If reproduced or distributed, this image should be clearly attributed to the collection of the Australian National Marit... More

Gary-Foley-1972

Gary-Foley-1972

Black Moratorium rally. Ningla A-Na. Commons Attribution 4.0 BY International Licence. Under this licence you are free to copy, distribute, remix and build upon this content as long as you acknowledge the Stat... More

Gary-Foley-1972

Gary-Foley-1972

Black Moratorium rally. Ningla A-Na. Commons Attribution 4.0 BY International Licence. Under this licence you are free to copy, distribute, remix and build upon this content as long as you acknowledge the Stat... More

Mick-Rangiari-1971

Mick-Rangiari-1971

Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy SEARCH Foundation collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVGxxY/8PME6b0z2WG3J Related article: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237868755

Mick-Rangiari-1971

Mick-Rangiari-1971

Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy SEARCH Foundation collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92eVGxxY/8PME6b0z2WG3J Related article: nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237868755

Police question Aboriginal Embassy protesters, Canberra, 27 January 1972. (27864808359)

Police question Aboriginal Embassy protesters, Canberra, 27 January 19...

Image courtesy The Tribune / SEARCH Foundation. Call number: ON 161/675 Digital ID: FL654382 Format: negative Find more detailed information about this photograph: archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/1103675... More

Decorated men from Boigu Island

Decorated men from Boigu Island

Creator: Unidentified. Location: Boigu Island, Torres Strait Island, Queensland. Description: This photograph is of Boigu Island Warriors, with their Bow and arrows. One man is holding a sword and several m... More

Murray Islanders in national dress 1960

Murray Islanders in national dress 1960

Creator: Rechnitz, Wilhelm Lorenz. Location: Murray [Mer] Island, Queensland. Description: Murray or Mer Islanders wearing traditional dress and posing with bow and arrows at the welcoming for the new bishop... More

Baroots (9938560423) - Public domain dedication image

Baroots (9938560423) - Public domain dedication image

Title: Baroots Alternative Title: [Barots] Creator: Johnson, William Date: ca. 1855-1862 Part Of: Photographs of Western India Series: Photographs of Western India. Volume I. Costumes and Characters. Place: Ind... More

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