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Mrs James Smith [B 3384] • Photograph

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Summary

[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.

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Physical description

Photograph; 9.8 cm x 5.7 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1865

Photographer

Wyatt, Thomas J. J

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Smith, James, Mrs, 1812?-1893
Missionaries -- South Australia -- Mount Gambier

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Digitisation information

Date

03/05/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,057 x 3,373 pixels (6.9 MP)

Size

20.84 MB

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