IDNO

P.85772.ACH2

Description

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.268.ACH1: “No legend.”

Composite plate of eight drawings, including a full-length frontal portrait of an Aboriginal man wearing white body paint and holding a hooked wooden weapon, a second weapon? and a spear. He is a warrior adorned for dancing; three head portraits, two frontal and one profile, showing differing body paint designs around the eyes. The two heads on the left show the head of a mourning person. The head of on the right shows a person adorned for a big ceremony; and four bark shield fronts showing different chiselled designs. [JD 23/8/2007, updated WV 6/4/2009]

Place

Oceania Australasia; Australia; Victoria; Darling River; Murray River

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

von Blandowski, Wilhelm [Artist]

Collector / Expedition

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

Date

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 Australien in 142 Photographischen (Unpublished, Gleiwitz), with no caption. [JD 23/8/2007]

Bibliographical Reference: Blandowski, William, 1855. Australia Terra Cognita (Unpublished, Melbourne). [JD 23/8/2007] Published as Plate 124 with the caption “Native adorned for Festivity”. [JD 23/8/2007]

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]

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:
“101. A warrior adorned and painted for dancing; on the left the head of a mourning person, on the right a person adorned for a big ceremony. Fourbark shields, typical with their various chiselled patterns Drawing by W.v. Blandowski.” [WV 6/4/2009]

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 6/4/2009]