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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS AT CRAWLEY BAY, C. 1865

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c. 1865

Overview

The black and white copy of a 'c1865' ? photo shows a group of local Noongar Indigenous Australians seated and standing near five bush huts/mia-mias thought to be in the Crawley area, with some spindly tall trees in the background. There are 15-20 people, wearing mostly kangaroo skin capes with some assorted pieces of European clothing or blankets. In the background is what is thought to be a European sitting on a horse - there is some blurring in this section. A pointed white post (part of a fence?) is in the front foreground.
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Black ink stamp reading 'THE ROYAL WESTERN AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (INC.) 49 BROADWAY, NEDLANDS WESTERN AUSTRALIA 6009'

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Registration number

cwa-org-43-1996.130.1

Item type

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

254 mm

Height or length

199 mm

Keywords

Aboriginal History- Community

Year

Statement of significance

local and aboriginal history

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