Aboriginal • Find • State Library of South Australia

Retrieving sunk expedition gear, Bickerton Island

Mountford, Charles P., 1948, Photograph, PRG 1218/34/2887

An Aboriginal man retrieving expedition gear from partially submerged dinghy, off Bickerton Island, during the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land.

Two stockmen

1923, Photograph, PRG 280/1/37/354

Two stockmen photographed riding their horses whilst droving on the overland route between the Northern Territory and South Australia; one man is Aboriginal, names not known.

Three men, two being Aboriginal, with a hairy-nosed wombat which they have dug out of its tunnel in the ground; one man stands laughing in the hole, another holds a spade, and the third holds the wombat by its legs; names not known.

Paddy Cahill and Aboriginal men

c. 1922, Photograph, PRG 280/1/39/345

Four men kneeling on the ground facing each other. According to a researcher, the location is Oenpelli, Northern Territory. Paddy Cahill is the superintendent/protector. According to another researcher, Paddy Cahill used to make local Aboriginal people perform 'games' and this is one of them. It was a test of strength. It is nothing to do with dance or ceremony.

A camel buggy cart

1923, Photograph, PRG 280/1/41/321

A buggy cart drawn by two camels being used by Aborigines to transport a white man and woman near a settlement in the far north of South Australia; names not known.

Railway bridge at Pine Creek, Northern Territory

1906, Photograph, PRG 280/1/43/317

The railway bridge over Adelaide River at Pine Creek, Northern Territory; a small group of Aboriginal people are bathing in the waters of the river.

Police at Port Augusta, South Australia

1915, Photograph, PRG 280/1/12/77

A group of policemen at Port Augusta, some carrying sabres; Inspector Thomas Clode is seated second from right, and an Aboriginal member of the squad sits on the ground in front, other names not known.

A carved bird

Smith, W. S., 1913, Photograph, PRG 280/1/14/51

Photograph of the carved figure of a bird by Aboriginal artist Erlikilyika (Jim Kite).

Three decorated boomerangs

Smith, W. S., 1913, Photograph, PRG 280/1/14/54

Photograph of three Aboriginal boomerangs by Erlikilyika (Jim Kite) decorated with animal motifs.

An Aboriginal carved tobacco-pipe bowl

Smith, W. S., 1913, Photograph, PRG 280/1/14/56

Photograph of a carved tobacco-pipe bowl by Aboriginal artist Erlikilyika (Jim Kite).

A decorated woomera

Smith, W. S., 1913, Photograph, PRG 280/1/14/58

A photograph of an Aboriginal woomera (spear thrower) by Erlikilyika (Jim Kite), decorated with insect figures; the concave side.

Children at Point McLeay Mission Station

1913, Photograph, PRG 280/1/14/478

A group of Aboriginal and white children standing and sitting with a white male, possibly their teacher at Point McLeay Mission Station, South Australia; names not known.

School group in Alice Springs

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/24/403

A group photograph of Aboriginal and white schoolgirls with teachers outside the Bungalow, Alice Springs. 'Extreme left is Dido Cooper and next to her is Topsy Smith, both mothers of some of the Bungalow children; teacher Ida Standley wearing a hat is at the right and her daughter, Mrs. Browne, is on the far right. A number of the unidentified girls pictured here were sent to Adelaide to work from 1918. From the photographic collectionof the National Trust of Australia (Northern Territory). Source: Frontiers 28, 2007 article by Victoria Haskins.

The wreck of a paddle steamer

c. 1920, Photograph, PRG 280/1/25/152

The wreck of the paddle-steamer 'Young Australia' in the Roper River, Northern Territory; a group of Aboriginals with a dog sit nearby.

Bush dentist at Alice Springs

1920, Photograph, PRG 280/1/29/261

A bush dentist inspecting the teeth of an Aboriginal man who sits on a wooden chair outside a dwelling at Alice Springs, Northern Territory.

Railway office at Ooldea

1923, Photograph, PRG 280/1/36/255

Two Aboriginal men with a group of children standing outside the railway office at Ooldea on the East West Railway line, in the far west of South Australia; names not known.

Patrick Cahill, buffalo hunter, farmer, and protector of Aboriginals

c. 1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/9/9

Patrick Cahill, buffalo hunter, farmer, and protector of Aboriginals in the Northern Territory; places named after him are a Darwin street and Mount Cahill's Landing, and Cahill's Crossing in Arnhem Land.

Two men standing at the foot of a tree

1904, Photograph, PRG 280/1/2/31

Two men standing at the foot of a tree; one is white, wearing a suit and a full dark beard, the second is an Aboriginal man, wearing western clothing including a high buttoned jacket and a bowler hat.

Undiah, Mounted Constable Wurmbrand, Undudna, Ardahkee, Corporal Chickylia, Mounted Constable Willshire and Jack. Billy lies prostrate in front

Taylor, James, 1888, Photograph, PRG 280/1/2/119

Aboriginal Policemen, Undiah, Ardahkee, Corporal Chickylia, Jack, and Billy (lying in front). Mounted Constables Erwein Wurmbrand (second from left) and William Henry Willshire (second from right), in a staged studio setting. See B 44610 for a reversed view of this photograph, and see B 13496 for a slightly different posed view.