• Title
  Photographs of Australian Aborigines at Momba sheep and cattle station, New South Wales, c.1865-1880s
• Call number
  PXA 562
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  c.1865-1880s
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442471
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 29 x 25 cm. or smaller - some silvering of silver gelatin photoprints; some images very faded - 13 photoprints including albumen and silver gelatin, most cardboard mounted
  
• Scope and Content
  1. [Older men & women of the Momba people. Wonko Mary is on the far left, Old Peter is on the far right. Fred Bonney is kneeling behind them, wearing a pith helmet]
  2. Hughey. An old native (Booingooroo) with bunch of green scrub on forehead to alleviate headache / Momba Station / nr Wilcannia
  3. Hughey at Momba / 1881
  4. [Wonko Mary making a stringbag; in mourning for a favourite dog]
  5. [Wonko Mary in mourning, with white plaster on her head, face and body]
  6. [Wonko Mary wearing a widow's cap of kopi, or gypsum]
  7. [Wonko Mary in widow's cap - now crumbling]
  8. A mother, Weelpilla, carrying her child, Nango
  9. [Aboriginal mother and child; possibly Weelpilla and Nango]
  10. [Jacob and Mary sitting in a winter camp, with daughter Doughboy]
  11. [Bobby Pilteree]
  12. Dressed for a corroboree or dance with bone through the nose
  13. A young man painted and standing in a fighting attitude - his name - Poondarrie
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Notes on provenance filed at PXn 807
  
  Detailed contents list held with collection
  
  These photos are attributed to Frederic Bonney who worked at Momba station on the Darling and Paroo Rivers near Wilcannia from 1865 to 1880. He learnt the language of the Barkindji people and photographed them over a period of years. Source: An Eye for Photography / Alan Davies. Victoria: Miegunyah Press, 2004
  These photos relate to images in The Bonney Photographs / Robert Lindsay. Dubbo: Western Region Country Area Program, Western Readers, c.1983 (ML Ref 1 Q428.6/196)
  
  Titled from inscriptions on mounts or reverse. Untitled photographs titled from Lindsay's publication, op. cit.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824196
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  "Frederic Bonney" -- signed on reverse in green ink (2,6)
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bonney, Frederic, 1842-1921
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  Adult Males
  girls
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  
• Place
  Wilcannia Region (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eye 4 photography
  Shot : 400 photographs, 200 photographers, 3 centuries
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE16026521

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