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IMAGE GALLERY
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INTRODUCTION
Major galleries and libraries in Australia now
have extensive digital collections of images. Some of the most
important for historians of Aboriginal Australia are those housed
in the National Library of Australia
and the State Library of New
South Wales. Images in the Awaba site are reproduced by permission
of the National Library, community members and authors.
1. IMAGES FROM THE NATIONAL
LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
1.1: Dry Plate
Photograph of Rev L E Threlkeld, 1788-1859
1.2: Joseph Lycett, Aborigine climbing
a tree by cutting steps in the trunk
1.3: "Magill" (Birabahn). Watercolour
1.4: Joseph Lycett, Aborigines feeding
from beached whales
1.5: Joseph Lycett, Aborigines hunting
kangaroo
1.6: Joseph Lycett, Aborigines hunting
waterbirds
1.7: Joseph Lycett, Aborigines resting
by camp fire, near the mouth of the Hunter River
1.8: Joseph Lycett, Corroboree around
a camp fire
1.9: Joseph Lycett, Corroborree
at Newcastle
1.10: Joseph Lycett, Fishing by
torchlight, other Aborigines beside camp fires cooking fish
1.11: Newcastle. Hunter's River.
New South Wales, c. 1818
1.12: Joseph Lycett, Newcastle,
New South Wales
1.13: Joseph Lycett, The Sugar
Loaf Mountain, Near New Castle, New South Wales
1.14: Joseph Lycett, Aborigines
Spearing Eels
2. NEWCASTLE REGION LIBRARY
2.1: Toronto Hotel
c1940, built on the site of Reverend Threlkeld's Ebenezer mission
2.2: Swansea 1892, Ralph Snowball (1849-1925)
2.3: Swansea Heads from Caves Beach, 1960,
H.J. Bear (1913-1993)
3. PEOPLE
3.1: "Biraban
(McGill)", 1839, from John Fraser's, An Australian Language.
3.2: "M'Gill", Alfred
T. Agate, December 1839
3.3: A "New Holland Boy"
3.4: "Magill" (Birabahn). Watercolour
3.5: Dry Plate Photograph of
Rev L E Threlkeld, 1788-1859
3.6: Reverend Dr. John Fraser
(1834-1904)
3.7: Margaret, died 14 October
1894
3.8: Awabakal women Leah, Nola
and Kerrie (nee Powell)
4. PHYSICAL
EVIDENCE
4.1: Hafted
stone axe
4.2: Axe Head, Cape Hawke
4.3: Axe Head, Anna Bay
4.4: Hand Cleaver, Awabakal
Nature Reserve
4.5: Worimi Cleaver, Anna Bay
4.6: Bondi Point, Awabakal
Nature Reserve
4.7: Bondi Point, mounted in
some gum
4.8: `Elouera' Scraper, Awabakal
Nature Reserve
4.9: Sokoloff 1977 Plate 1:
deliberately flaked back of the artefact
4.10: Sokoloff 1977 Plate
2: a large hand scraper
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