IDNO

P.85734.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.231.ACH1: “Woman fishing in a lagoon (on right of photo. Eucalyptus gloriosus [globulus?] - Goborreton Phragmites [Goboro Phragmatis).”

Two Aboriginal women using a round net to fish, while a second pair of women are walking through the water dragging a net between them in a nearly dried out side arm of the Murray River. On the rocks in the foreground is a curled black snake and the reeds Phragmatis vulgaris. In the background is the Eucalyptus bicolor or “Goboro-rubber tree”, white Cacatua gelerites and Eucalyptus globulus. [See Blandowski 1862, fig. 39]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Victoria; Darling River; Murray 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.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 Australien in 142 Photographischen (Unpublished), with the caption “Aborigines of Australia, Plate 134. William v. Blandowski, Australia. Women fishing in a lagoon. Eucalyptus glorious - Goborreton Phragmites”. 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:
“39. Women catching fish in the nearly dried out side arms of the Murray River- In the background, Eucalyptus bicolor or "Goboro-rubber tree", white Cacatua galerites and Eucalyptus globulus; in the foreground the reed Phragmatis vulgaris and the typical black snake.” [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]

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]