IDNO

P.85733.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.230.ACH1: “Fishing in the sea.”

Five Aboriginal men catching fish while the tide is out by standing knee-deep in the sea where they'll wait for hours, holding their spears ready. In the area around St. Kilda, near Melbourne. [See Blandowski 1862, fig. 38]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Victoria; ?Murray River; near St. Kilda; near Melbourne

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Muetzel, Gustav [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

1861; 1862

Collection Name

Haddon Collection

Source

?Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.85724. to P.85811. were tied together in a bundle.

Bibliographical Reference: Blandowski, William von, 1862. Australien in 142 Photographischen (Unpublished), with the caption “Aborigines of Australia, Plate 203?. William v. Blandowski, Australia. Fishing in the Sea”. The image is signed “G.M.61”. [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:
“37. Australians catching fish at night on the Murray River. The fisherman puts some wet clay on the canoe, lights a fire on it, and with a torch in the one hand and the spear in the other he waits standing in the canoe for the large fish that Europeans call carp. Drawn by G. Mützel.” [WV 27/3/2009]

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]

Bibliographical Reference: Blandowski, William, 1855. Australia Terra Cognita (Unpublished, Melbourne). [JD 23/8/2007] Appears to be a plate from this publication, with the caption “Aborigines of Australia”. [JD 23/8/2007]

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]