Aboriginal Australians - Clothing
Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :Full dress for the Corroboree. G Lacy. [1865]
Date: 1865
From: Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :[Australian drawings] [ca 1865]
Reference: B-067-007
Description: An Aboriginal man striking a pose holding his weapons. He is wearing a pointed hat, tassled girdle, anklets of leaves; his body is painted in with orange stripes Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 415 x 300 mm
Artist unknown :Naturale del Porto Jervis [and] Donne dell'isola dei Kanguro (Oceania)....
Date: 1844
From: [Various artists] :[Costume plates of Oceania] Torino [Turin] ; Fontana, 1844
Reference: A-119-015/016
Description: Shows at the top the head of s miling bearded man with shoulder-length hair. Lower half shows the shaved heads of two women, one in profile and one almost full-face. Other Titles - Native of Port Jervis [and] Women of Kangaroo Island Extended Title - From: Wahlen, A. Usi e costumi sociali, politici, et religiosi... Vol. 2 Oceania. Torino, 1844-1847. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, handcoloured, on sheet 270 x 175 mm.
Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :Shifting camp. G Lacy. [1865]
Date: 1865
From: Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :[Australian drawings] [ca 1865]
Reference: B-067-038
Description: A group of Aborigines walking in search of a new place to camp. Shows men carrying weapons and dead animals, women with babies on their backs, young children and dogs walking alongside Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 358 x 485 mm
Photographs of Australian Natives
Date: 1873-1874
From: New Zealand. General Assembly Library: Photograph albums from the Mangaroa collection
By: Lindt, John William, 1845-1926
Reference: PA1-q-1317
Description: Album of 12 mounted studio tableau photographs portraying individuals and groups of Aboriginal Australians, positioned in front of painted landscape backdrops among artefacts and specimens of native Australian flora and fauna, taken by John William Lindt, produced between 1873 and 1874. Title transcribed from item. A series of 12 photographic prints portraying Aboriginal Australians by John William Lindt are included in an album of photographs at Library reference PA1-q-330. Of the 12 photographic prints, nine appear to be taken from the same negatives as those found in this album. Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 12 mounted photographs. Physical Description: Album, brown leather half-binding with brown cloth boards, raised bands, decorations and lettering in gilt, containing 12 albumen photographic prints mounted on recto of album leaves, 37 x 28.5 cm.
Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :Quart-Pot. G Lacy. [1865]
Date: 1865
From: Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :[Australian drawings] [ca 1865]
Reference: B-067-002
Description: Head and shoulders of an aboriginal man with beard and moustache, wearing a feather cloak and holding a multi-barbed spear Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 300 x 234 mm
Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :Miss Frying-pan. G Lacy. [1865]
Date: 1865
From: Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :[Australian drawings] [ca 1865]
Reference: B-067-001
Description: Head and shoulders of a young Aboriginal woman wearing a patterned cloak trimmed around the top with feathers. She has a bone through her nose and is shown with one breast exposed Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 245 mm
Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :Practiseing his steps for the Corrobborree. G Lacy. [1865]
Date: 1865
From: Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :[Australian drawings] [ca 1865]
Reference: B-067-008
Description: An Aboriginal man leaping in the air as he practises for the corroboree with his spear. He is wearing a tassled girdle, anklets of leaves; his body is painted with orange stripes Other Titles - Practising his steps for the Corroboree Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 403 x 290 mm
Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :Nature unadorned. G Lacy. [1865]
Date: 1865
From: Lacy, George, ca 1817-1878 :[Australian drawings] [ca 1865]
Reference: B-067-018
Description: An Aboriginal woman fishing at the water's edge of a river using a spear. She is standing on a rocky ledge over the water with her spear poised ready to spear a fish. A man is seated on the ground beside her. She is wearing a skirt or blanket and necklace. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 325 x 255 mm on sheet 440 x 340 mm
Sainson, Louis Auguste de, b 1800 :Neu-Seeland. T.28. Waffen aus der Mords-Bucht. Angel...
Date: 1788
By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Brodtmann, Karl Joseph, 1787-1862
Reference: A-464-034
Description: Shows a variety of waeapons, tools and jewellery used by Maori. Also shows implements from Australia (New Holland), including necklaces made with shells, an axe, knife and spear, and a canoe Other Titles - New Zealand. Plate 28. Weapons from Murderers Bay. Fish-hooks from Astrolabe Bay. Earrings from Astrolabe Bay. Mortar and pestle for pounding fern roots. Pounamu pendant. Boar's-tooth pendant [translation] Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842. Entdeckungs-Reise der franzosischen Corvette Astrolabe ... aus dem Franzosischen mit einem lithographirten Atlas. Schaffhausen [Switzerland], in J. Brodtmann's lithograpischen Anstalt, [1836? Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, on wove paper, 360 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, April 2014
[Thompson, Arthur Alfred], 1915-1997: Australia; fly TEAL [1950s]
Date: 1955 - 1965
By: Thompson, Arthur Alfred, 1915-1997
Reference: Eph-E-AVIATION-TEAL-1950s-10
Description: Red poster advertising Tasman Empire Airways Limited flights to Australia shows an Aboriginal man dancing beneath a red fluorescent sun. His body is painted with rows of dots and he wears a loin-cloth and neck piece, and a tall pointed and tasselled hat that bends to the left. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print, 978 x 643 mm. Provenance: Purchased from a descendant of the artist, 2010.