IDNO

P.85633.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.306.ACH1: “Native tomb on the Lachlan river. After Caley?.”

An Aboriginal burial ground situated in a clearing of Callitris trees near the Lachlan River. The ground consists of a half-spherical mound of packed earth surrounded by four rings of raised packed earth. A section of the mound is shown cut away as if an archaeological trench to show the layering of material underneath a level where corpses are placed. To the right of the burial ground are standing two Aboriginal men. They are next of kin who are seeking revenge in the direction in which the sand blows. Symbols are painted onto the tree trunks. [JD 23/8/2007] [WV 23/4/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; New South Wales; Lachlan River

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Muetzel, Gustav [Artist]; after Caley, George [Botanist, Artist]

Collector / Expedition

von Blandowski, William [Blandowski Expedition to the Lower Murray River, 1857]

Date

1860; 1862

Collection Name

Haddon Collection

Source

?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.84200. to P.84255. and P.85603. to P.85634. were tied together in a bundle.

Related Image: The original Blandowski album, from which this is a copy print, is held in the Haddon Library, Cambridge, reference 260.B. [JD 25/6/2008]

Bibliographical Reference: Blandowski, William von, 1862. Australien in 142 Photographischen (Unpublished), with the caption “Aborigines of Australia, Plate 164. William v. Blandowski, Australia. Native tomb on the Lachlan River in 133o & 23o. After Caley”. The image is signed “G.M.60”. [JD 23/8/2007]

Bibliographical Reference: Blandowski, W. 1862. Australien in 142 Photographischen Abbildungen. Gustav Neumann, Gleiwicz. Edited by Harry Allen. Translated from the German by Lillian Barton. Translation Copyright: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2007.
“140. At the Lachan River (133o eastern longitude and 33o southern latitude) Oxlery also found such mounds in the Callitris forests. These were protected by four separate embankments. The next of the kin seeks revenge in the direction in which the sands blows. Here too various symbols are painted on to tree trunks.” [JD 25/6/2008] [WV 23/4/2009]

Biographical Information: GEORGE CALEY (1770-1829), naturalist and explorer, was born on 10 June 1770 at Craven, Yorkshire, England. “A desire to know more about farriery led him to study botany and with the encouragement of the celebrated botanist, Dr William Withering (1744-1799), he became associated with the Manchester School of Botanists. In 1795 he approached Sir Joseph Banks and after working in the Kew and other gardens was appointed by Banks in 1798 to go to New South Wales as a collector at a weekly wage of 15s. with quarters and supplies from the government stores. ... He was the first to make a determined effort to study the Eucalyptus; he also studied bird and animal life and specimens of these were likewise sent to Banks with comments and explanations. His excursions took him to Western Port and Jervis Bay, the Hunter River, Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land, but of more significance were those around Sydney; these included the definition of the limits of the Vaccary Forest (Cowpastures) in February 1804, an attempt to cross the Blue Mountains in November 1804, which ended at a place he named Mount Banks overlooking the Grose Valley, a journey beyond the Cowpastures to Jugroy in July 1805, another from Parramatta across the northern ridges to the sea near Narrabeen in January 1807, and one from Prospect to the upper waters of George's River and the Cataract and Cordeaux Rivers in July 1807.”
[Source: R. Else-Mitchell, 'Caley, George (1770 - 1829)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition,
Copyright 2006, updated continuously, ISSN 1833-7538, published by Australian National University
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010180b.htm, JD 25/6/2008] [See Related Documents File, JD 25/6/2008]

Bibliographical Reference: For discussion of authorship see: Allen, H. 2006. Authorship and ownership in Blandowski's Australien in 142 Photographischen Abbildungen. Australasian Historical Archaeology 24:31-37. [Jane Lydon, Monash University, 8/7/2009]

CUMAA Exhibition: P.84112.ACH2 to P.85713.ACH2 were on display in the SSL as part of the Brook Andrew ‘The Island’ Exhibition, 24th June - 27th September 2008. [JD 25/6/2008]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 23/8/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Aboriginal Visual Histories Project, Monash University. [Wonu Veys 23/4/2009]