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Aborigines at Koonibba Mission
A family group at Koonibba Mission seated in front of a wurlie. See also PRG 559/3/75 for another photo of the same group.
Colebrook Home girls
Colebrook Home Girls. To see a selection of photographs in this collection, search on Archival number PRG 1631/93.
Saluting the flag
A group of school children at the Point McLeay School saluting the flag. Superintendent Ambrose Redman is centre back; his youngest daughter Dorothy is also at the back between her father and a young man (student teacher?). The boys are all saluting; none of the girls are.
Murtee Johnny at Marree
A head and shoulders portrait of Murtee Johnny, a Yandruwandha man, taken at Marree just off the main road. He has a full snowy grey beard and moustache.
Murtee Johnny at Marree
A full portrait shot of Murtee Johnny, a Yandruwandha man, taken at Marree just off the main road. He has a full snowy grey bear and moustache, and is wearing trousers, a white shirt and a hat. The terrain around him is flat and he is holding a stick.
Photographs relating to Love’s work as a missionary in Northern Queensland
Photographs mostly taken by J.R.B. Love, or by others using his camera, whilst working as a missionary at Mapoon, other Gulf of Carpentaria missions and Thursday Island. See attached list for detailed biographical information and details of the individual photos.
Murtee Johnny
Portrait of Murtee Johnny, a Yandruwandha man, aged approximately 102 years.
Murtee Johnny and Bobby Merrick
Murtee Johnny, a Yandruwandha man, aged approximately 102 years, with Bobby Merrick, outside Murtee's shack near Lyndhurst, South Australia.
Murtee Johnny with Bobby Merrick and Nana
Murtee Johnny, a Yandruwandha man, aged approximately 102 years, with Bobby Merrick and 'Nana', near Lyndhurst, South Australia. 'Nana' was from a different tribe, but came every day to check on Murtee Johnny.
Two Aboriginal girls with a brolga
"Our tame native companions and two girls". Baṉḏaka Damaḻka and Warraya. The string is like a bra. The birds may have been brought from Darwin.
Aboriginal girls playing 'mothers and babies'
"Children playing mothers and babies, 1930s." Young girls pretending to have breasts. They are wearing dried mud on string.
Aboriginal woman and child
"Yaws tropical ulcers, Rife in early days, 1930s." Baŋguyŋa, Djarrtjarrminybuy's older sister.
Aboriginal man playing a digeridoo
Man playing didgeridoo, with young boy assisting.
Aboriginal school boys, Milingimbi
"School boys Milingimbi".
Aboriginal school girls, Milingimbi
"School girls mid 1930s". At Milingimbi, Northern Territory.
Aboriginal students on Elcho Island
"Stephen and Milindirri with some friends, 1945". Stephen was one of the first students to do Correspondence school, and later helped to build the school (See PRG 933/13/325).
Aboriginal men hauling logs, Milingimbi
"Hauling logs from the bush at Howard Island for the saw mill at Milingimbi 1930s".
Aboriginal men hauling logs, Milingimbi
"Hauling logs from the bush at Howard Island for the saw mill at Milingimbi 1930s".
Aboriginal women preparing cycad nuts
"Two women preparing food, the cycad nut".
Iwiri Choir performing at the Voice to Parliament public ceremony
Iwiri Choir performing at the Voice to Parliament public ceremony. The South Australian public were invited by the Government to attend the special sitting of Parliament and the signing of the bill, to be a part of the establishment of Australia's first Voice to Parliament for First Nations People.
Photograph albums belonging to Hermann and Hilda Heinrich
Records comprise photographs taken from three photograph albums belonging to Hermann and Hilda Heinrich. Captions found on the photographs have been noted in quotation marks. Some captions have been provided by Ilona Oppenheim. Photographs show activities in and around Hermannsburg Mission, people of the Mission, Alice Springs, Darwin, Henbury Station, Gosse Ranges, Palm Valley and other places in Central Australia.
Heinrich family album
Heinrich family album, compiled by Ilona Oppenheim from loose family photographs. Notes found on the verso of photographs are noted in the caption in inverted commas. Topics include life at Hermannsburg Mission in the Northern Territory in the nineteen twenties, with photographs of some Aboriginal people and visitors to Hermannsburg, including scientists, government officials and tourists. Photos 293-295 are restricted from view pending assessment of Aboriginal content. These images include 293. Ceremonial tjuringa stones of the Hermannsburg area (restricted); 294. 'Manangananga' sacred cave (restricted); 295. 'Holy cave 17 April 1929 (Dad's birthday)'. Large group of Aboriginal people from the Hermannsburg Mission gathered at a sacred spot (restricted). Photos 296-302 have not been digitised. These are duplicated elsewhere in other Heinrich albums or lantern slides.
The Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891-2: photographs
Album containing thirty six albumen plates with printed captions, showing Aboriginal people encountered during the Elder Scientific Exploration Expedition, 1891-1892. The expedition left from Nilpinna Spring, near Cootanoorina in northern South Australia and explored areas of the Everard Ranges, Birksgate Ranges, Fraser Ranges and Hampton Plains regions in Western Australia. An index to the numbered plates appears at the front of the album. The wording of the captions is taken directly from the printed labels below the plates.
Records relating to the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948 and the Commonwealth Government Expedition to western Arnhem Land (Oenpelli) 1949
Material collected during the historic American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (AASEAL), Northern Territory. Papers include multiple field notes, diaries, correspondence, accounts, original artworks, maps and documentary photographs including additional text with descriptions, meanings and diagrams, newspaper articles, typescript records of Aboriginal songs, sound recordings and other sundries. Also contains a journal relating to the complementary expedition to western Arnhem Land the following year. See below for further details.
Collection of loose photographs and negatives
Collection of enlargements of loose photographs, together with a collection of photograph negatives. Photographs relate to buildings, life and activities in and around Hermannsburg Mission (Finke River Mission) in the Northern Territory and include Aboriginal people and staff of the Mission, children of Hermann and Hilda Heinrich, Central Australian scenery and several photographs of planes and vehicles visiting Hermannsburg with parties of visitors. Captions on the photographs are noted in quotation marks. Some captions and additions to captions have been provided by Ilona Oppenheim. A selection of the negatives has been digitised, see photographs 52-77. Photograph negatives 78-200 have not been digitised. These are mostly scenery of the Hermannsburg area including Palm Valley, as well as the Heinrich family and are duplicated in other albums. For these see series 6-8.
"Make a Book" workshop for children of Kaurna Plains School
"Make a Book" workshop for children of Kaurna Plains School. Photographs taken by the Aboriginal Unit of the State Library of S.A.
NAIDOC presentation at the State Library
Presentations and events at the State Library of S.A. during NAIDOC week, including talks, artist demonstrations, people, and a didjeridoo performance. The theme for the 1991 event was "Community is unity". Many of the photographs feature Des Ross (former Chairman of the Libraries Board of South Australia). Photographs taken by the Aboriginal Unit of the State Library of S.A.
"Make a Book" workshop for children of Kaurna Plains School
"Make a Book" workshop for children of Kaurna Plains School. Photographs taken by the Aboriginal Unit of the State Library of S.A.
Badges relating to political issues
A collection of circular tin plate badges with pin attachment on back, relating to Australian political issues from the 1970s to the 2000s collected by Molly Brannigan. Topics include: Australian Labor Party, Vietnam Moratorium Campaign (VMC), peace movement and an end to war, anti-nuclear and uranium mining protests, nuclear disarmament, Friends of the Earth, May Day peace marches, Socialist workers, Aboriginal land rights and reconciliation, against ANZUS and US bases in Australia, independence for various countries, Australian Independence Movement of the mid 1970s, and miscellaneous political badges. See below for details.
Photograph album of Far North South Australian stations and homesteads
Album of photographs taken during a Department of Lands survey of stations and homesteads in the far north of South Australia, in approximately 1938. See below for details.