IDNO

LS.109010.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card for: "N.S. Wales.
New South Wales male, head and shoulders, front. ‘Duraub’ [sic Dhraub], Bombala, N.S.W."

On Catalogue Card for duplicate print P.70.ACH1: "Onraub [sic Dhraub], man, Bombala."

Studio head and shoulders portrait of Dhraub, an Aboriginal man from Bombala, New South Wales. The man has a full beard and moustache, and appears to be sitting on a chair looking away from the camera. [JD 11/09/2018, updated JD 26/03/2020]

Place

Oceania Australasia; W Europe; Australia; Germany; New South Wales; Sydney; Bombala; Cologne Museum

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Dhraub [misspelt on catalogue cards as Duraub; Onraub]

Photographer

Kerry, Charles Henry

Collector / Expedition

Date

circa 1892

Collection Name

Teaching Slide CollectionHaddon Unmounted Collection

Source

Lips (Dr)

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image held at National Library of Australia, reference PIC Album 1205 #PIC/15897/55, with the following information: "Creator: Kerry, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1857-1928
Title: Portrait of Dhraub, an Aboriginal man from Bombala, New South Wales / Charles Kerry
Created/Published: approximately 1892
Extent: 1 photograph : silver gelatin ; 21.7 x 16.6 cm
Physical Context: PIC Album 1204-1206 #PIC/15897/1-108-Studio portraits of Australian Aboriginal men and women, 1885 to 1894/Portrait of Dhraub, an Aboriginal man from Bombala, New South Wales
Online access is restricted for the following reasons: Indigenous." [Source: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-153477785/view, JD 26/03/2020]

Related Image: Same image held at the British Museum, reference Oc,B124.7, with the following information: "Description: Photograph (black and white); a collection of fifteen photographs, made up of fifteen studio portraits of Indigenous Australian men some wearing nose ornaments, some have scarification on their chests; Australia. 
Albumen print
Photographed by: Kerry and Co
Printed by: F E Moore
Ethnic name: Representation of Indigenous Australian
Date: 19thC(late)
Inscription: "99 Dhraub, Chief Bombala tribe, N.S.W." [Source: www.britishmuseum.org, JD 26/03/2020]

Biographical Information: "KERRY, CHARLES HENRY (1857-1928), photographer, was born on 3 April 1857 at Bombala, New South Wales, son of Samuel Kerry, commissioner's orderly and later grazier from Derbyshire, England, and his native-born wife Margaret, née Blay. Educated at Bombala and in Sydney, at 17 he joined Alexander Henry Lamartiniere's photographic studio and about 1883 became a partner. Soon afterwards Lamartiniere absconded with Kerry's small capital, but he carried on in partnership with C. D. Jones, paid off the firm's debts and turned a small portrait studio into the colony's largest photographic organization.
Kerry sold albums of high-quality pictures of the countryside; he filled his shop window with news pictures of the latest funeral, cricket match or vice-regal garden party and sold prints to the public. In 1885 he was asked to prepare an exhibit of Aboriginal portraits and corroboree pictures for the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London. In 1891 he was commissioned by the government to photograph the Jenolan and Yarrangobilly caves. The project, carried out by candlelight and magnesium flashes, was hazardous. At Yarrangobilly he found and named the Jersey cavern after the governor. He also visited leading pastoral stations in New South Wales professionally.
At St Mark's Church, Darling Point, Kerry married Delphine Hilda Vivian on 20 January 1897. Next year his luxurious three-storied studio was opened and he used electric arc lights to photograph guests at a ball. By 1900 Kerry & Co. handled the major illustrations for the local press. In 1908 he photographed the visit of the American fleet and the Burns-Johnson fight, when he rushed the exposures of each round to the studio to be printed and put in his show-window within minutes of their arrival.
Long interested in mineralogy, Kerry floated tin-mining companies in the Federated Malay States and Siam, and was chairman of the Malayan Tin Corporation and of the Ratrut Basin and Takuopa Valley tin-dredging companies until his death. He handed over his studio to a relation in 1913 to concentrate on his mining interests and twice visited the East. A keen angler and bushman, Kerry had joined the Sydney Lancers in the 1880s and in five years won twenty-five prizes in cavalry sports. In the 1890s he took up clay pigeon shooting, in 1893-94 won the New South Wales open handicap and was a founder of the New South Wales Gun Club. He pioneered snow sports at Kiandra and in the winter of 1897 led a party from Jindabyne to the summit of Mt Kosciusko, which led to the opening up of the area for skiing and the naming of a run after him. He was president of the Kosciusko Alpine Club.
Soon after his return from a visit to the Great Barrier Reef, Kerry died suddenly at his home at Neutral Bay on 26 May 1928 and was cremated with Anglican rites. He was survived by his wife and son who inherited his estate, valued for probate at £8303." (Keast Burke, 'Kerry, Charles Henry (1857 - 1928)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp 577-578).

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Aboriginal Visual Histories Project, Monash University. [Wonu Veys 11/3/2009]