IDNO

P.85637.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.222.ACH1: “An old woman [sic 'man'] at the Campaspe and Murray river junction.”

Half-length portrait of an older Aboriginal man from the "confluence of the Campaspe and Murray Rivers, 120 English miles from Melbourne." The man's portrait is drawn in profile, and he has a "snow-white" moustache and beard, and cicatrisation on the shoulder and upper arm. The man wears a fur blanket? or cloak? wrapped over the left shoulder then down to keep the right arm free. [See Blandowski 1862, fig. 27]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Victoria; Murray River; Campaspe River

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Muetzel, Gustav [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.85635. to P.85723. were tied together in a bundle.

Bibliographical Reference: Blandowski, William von, 1862. Australien in 142 Photographischen (Unpublished), with the caption “Aborigines of Australia, Plate 147. William v. Blandowski, Australia. An old woman on the Campaspe and Murray Ri junction”. The image is signed “G.M.60”. [JD 23/8/2007]

Publication: Blandowski, W. 1862. Australien in 142 Photographischen Ahbildungen. Gustav Neumann, Gleiwicz. Edited by Harry Alien. Translated from the German by Lillian Barton. Translation Copyright: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2007. with the caption:
“27. An old woman with snow-white facial hair. At the confluence of the Campaspe and Murray Rivers, 120 English miles from Melbourne.”

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]

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 27/3/2009]