Pictures of the government medical relief expedition 1919

PXB 263

fonds

ca. 1919-1923

Graphic Materials, Photographs

64614

1 album (184 photoprints) - 22.2 x 30 cm.

Warning: This album contains images of a medical nature and also of male-only ceremonies. Discretion is advised -- Indigenous Services Librarian, Dec 2005
1. Party crossing clay-flat north-west of Gill's Bluff 14/8/19
2. Table Hill at White Banks (Desert sandstone formation)
3. Donkey wagon carting wool to Farina
4. Table Hill at White Banks
5. Jointed basal beds of shale, Table Hill at White Banks
6. Evening flight of bare eye cockatoos to water, Boundary Well
7. Mrs J. Lee, wife of caretaker, Boundary Well
8. Murnpeowie Bore
9. Expedition members at Murnpeowie troughs
10. Murnpeowie shearing shed and wool stacks
11. Aboriginal's grave, Murnpeowie
12. Opened Aboriginal's grave
13. Aboriginal's grave, Murnpeowie
14. The toll of the drought dead sheep, Murnpeowie
16. Old Blanchewater Head Station
17. Expedition caravan on MoppaCollina Channel (known as Lake Crossing) between Lake's Blanche and Callabonna
18. Crossing the dreaded Cobbler sandhills north of Lake Callabonna
19. Artesian Bore on Box Flat
20. Expedition horses watering on clay pan, north of Box Flat
21. Bean Tree, Strzelecki Creek, south of Carraweena
22. Black boy Percy feeding camel calf, Chidlee (Tinga Tingana)
23. Aborigines Jessie, Jacob and Rosie ... Chidlee (Tinga Tingana)
24. Aboriginal Korpakera (Jessie) of the Kuyanni Tribe, Stuart's Creek ...
25. Aboriginal Ngalbullina (Jacob) of Dieri Tribe, Kanowana ...
26. Aboriginal Kanpandi (Rosie) of Yantowannta Tribe, Carraweena ...
27. Midday rest between Chidlee and Murta Murta
28. Sandhills east of Murta Murta
29-32. Sand ridge trending N. and S. east of Murta Murta
33. Flower and fruit garden, Murta Murta Station, Stock's, pansies, sweet peas, lemons
34. Hacks Pea or Parrot Plant (Crotolaria Cunninhami), Murta Murta Station
35-36. Aboriginal `Bony' (Unkolonnya) of Yantowannta Tribe, Murta Murta
37. Aboriginal Yakibanni (Kitty) of the Dieri Tribe, Murta Murta
38. Aboriginal Nirripingarrega (Marian) of the Yantowannta Tribe, Murta Murta
39-40. Aboriginal woman Fanny, Murta Murta
41. Wurley, Murta Murta
42. Marshmallows
43. Old Box Tree, Della Waterhole
45. Swallows' nest on Box Tree, Della Waterhole
46. [leaves]
47. Tooroopie Waterhole
48. Innamincka Township
49. Innamincka Station and stockyards
50-52. Throwing and branding horses, Innamincka Station
54. Piccaninny, one week old, lying in cooleman (food carrier)
55. Lubra (Biddy) and piccaninny, Innamincka
56. Aboriginal Karrawilya (Peter) wearing pubic tassel, Innamincka
57. Aboriginal Karrawilya (Peter) showing mode of wearing the beard, Innamincka
58. Aboriginal Danbidleli (Jim Mariner) who remembers Burke and Wills and helped to gather nardo for them, Innamincka
59. Aboriginal, Innamincka
60. Aboriginal Warragudli (Butter Jack), Innamincka
61. Nyerrekoku an aboriginal woman in mourning. Her face is covered with kopai ...
63. Madrobandi (Lassy)
65. Blind Aboriginal woman ...
66. Aborigines working on Innamincka Station
67. [male] graves of Aborigines, Innaminkca
68. [female] Aboriginal's grave, Innamincka
69-71. Burke's Tree, Copper's Creek
72. Flood-channel of Barcoo or Cooper's Creek immediately east of Burke's Tree
73-74. Waterhole immediately north of Burke's Tree
75. Burke's depot on Cooper's Creek ...
76. The head of Burke carved into the butt of a tree at Burke's depot ...
77. The boundary crossed ... [Queensland and South Australian border fence]
78. Ruins of the old Customs House at Oontoo, Queensland boundary
79. Aboriginal woman Wolyanni (Topsy) ... Nappa Merrie
80. Left hand of Aboriginal woman Nurpinni (Maggie) ... Nappa Merrie
81. Morning flight of foraging galahs east of Nappa Merrie
82. Old man's kangaroo death ... Nappa Merrie
83. Taking a creek-bed on the way to Durham Downs
84. Crow scavengers at Durham Downs, Queensland
85. A comfortable corner at `Government House' verandah, Durham Downs Station, Queensland
86. Framework of a wurley, Durham Downs
87. Ti Tree in Cooper's Crossing, Durham Downs
89. A corpulent black gin, Wido, Durham Downs
90. Jim the Chinese gardener at Durham Downs Station
91. Aboriginal woman Wido ...
92. Aboriginal woman Yarriutchu ... Durham
93. Plucking a wild duck shot at the Toopery Waterhole
94. Toopery Waterhole at daybreak
95. Tooroowatchie Waterhole
96. Swallows' nests upon the butt of a Box Tree, Tooroowatchie Waterhole
97. Aboriginal stone wurlie, Cordillo
98. Emu Apple Tree, Cordillo Downs Station
99-100. Twin girls, Kanbika and Nanbika of Yauroworka Tribe, Cordillo Downs
101. Red Mulga or Minaritchie, Bull's Waterhole
102. Box Tree showing bare patch from which bark has been removed by natives to make a food carrier or coolerman, Doorakoppera Waterhole
103. Jurie Waterhole
104-105. Cadelga Station - submanager, family and children on horseback
106. Our horses at Ringamurra Wells, Queensland Boundary. Rider's hut in background
108. Sand deposited by a single storm between kitchen and meathouse, Miranda Station
109. Our party leaving the Bluff Station for Birdsville
110. Hillock's of sand deposited on the leeward side of tussocks by sandstorms. Six miles south of Birdsville
111. About to enter South Australia ...
112. Dickerie Waterhole on the Eleanor River
113. Washing day at Dickerie Waterhole
114. Our horses at Karratunka Waterhole
115. Calves watering at Karratunka Waterhole
116. Aboriginal's grave at Karratunka Waterhole
117. The camp kitchen at Karratunka Waterhole
118. Trapper's Family (McCawley) at Karratunka Waterhole
119. Blackboy Walter, Andrewilla Waterhole
120. Beefwood Tree
121. Aboriginal Dintra (Sandy) of Ngameni Tribe, Mount Jason
124-130. [Portraits of Aboriginal children and one adult]
131. Sandhills of Cooper's Creek, Kopperamanna
132. Old Kopperamanna Station, Lake Kopperamanna in background
133. [horse]
134. A fine specimen of Box Tree Flood plains of Cooper near Killalpaninna
135. Killalpaninna Mission Station
136. Killalpaninna Lake
137. The approach of a sandstorm, Lake Killalpaninna
138. Sunrise at Blase's Well
139. Corrugations (ripple marks) produced in hard ground by sand storm, Blase's Well
140. Bore stream, Clayton River
141. Date Palm Plantation, Lake Harry
142. [date plams]
143. Lake Harry Bore
145. The Governor of S.A., Sir Tom Bridges & party at a public reception at Quorn en route to Alice Springs
146. Dr. H. Baredon, Capt. Hambleton, Murray ... Sir T. Bridges ... Mr. Bell, Commissioner of Railways
147. Different modes of transport - [camel train]
148. Grave of the late Pastor Strehlow, Horse Shoe Bend
149. Black & white school children form a guard of honour at Alice Springs
150. His Excellency about to leave Alice Springs
151-152. Heavitree Gap, McDonnell Ranges looking north & south
153. Sandstone Ridges, MacDonnell Ranges
154. Some members of Vice-Regal party & local people, Stuart Arms Hotel, Alice Springs
155. Old gums, Alice Springs
156. Mr Bell, Sir Tom Bridges, Sargeant Stott & Sir Barwell
157. Building in course of erection, Alice Springs
158. Natives interested in Vice Regal motor cars
159. Date palms, Alice Springs
160. Citrus fruit trees in full bearing, police residence
161. Bullock in poor condition bogged near Alice Springs
162. Hauling the beast to dry ground
163. Owing to scarcity of feed the bullock has become too weak to help itself
164. Native women collecting wood for big corroboree
165. Ceremonial dance, Arunndta Tribe
166. Emu ceremony, Arunndta Tribe
167. The Tjilbahuta of the great Emu ceremony, Arunndta Tribe
168. Vice Regal car bogged on Bunt's Plain
169. Travelling cattle, Bunt's Plain
170. Central Mount Stuart, dead heart of Australia
171. Lucrehevy camp, Central Mount Stuart in background
172. Native holly
173. A traveller east of Alice Springs
174. Sargeant Noblet & Sir H. Barnell with young hurrajon tree, planted by H. Basedon in 1920
175. Sir T. Bridges planting a tree at Arlunga Police Station
176. Stout posts for making stockyards
177. Sir Tom Bridges
178. Old battery, Arlunga
179. Vice Regal party near Alice Springs
180. Full blooded Aboriginal girls with golden hair, Hermannsburg Mission
181. Clara, Monica golden haired girls, Hermannsburg Mission
182. Hermannsburg Mission, school girls
183. Some of the male members of Hermannsburg Mission, Finke River
184. Native huts, Hermannsburg
185. Natural springs west of Hermannsburg
186. Kopriba Springs west of Hermannsburg
187. A stony crossing, Finke River
188. A station homestead, Central Australia
189-190. Desert oak, depot sandhills
191. Cattle watering, Hamilton Bore
192. Breakfast time, Vice Regal party
193. Waiting for breakfast

Most of the photoprints are titled