Wyatt, Thomas J. J., c. 1865, Photograph, B 3384
[General description] This is a full length portrait of Mrs James (Christina) Smith, standing at a slight angle to the camera and resting one hand on a shelf. A Scottish Presbyterian missionary and teacher she did much work with the Booandik Aboriginies, eventually, in 1865, realising her dream of opening a school and home for local Aboriginal children in Mount Gambier. She wrote a treatise entitled 'The Booandik Tribe of South Australian Aborigines' recording the tribe's rites, songs and language and including biographies of converts.