• Title
  File 2: Australian Aboriginals / published by J.W. Lindt, artist photographer
• Creator
  J. W. (John William) Lindt, 1845-1926
• Call number
  PXA 432 (v.2)
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  ca. 1873
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442485
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 20 x 16 cm. on mounts 31 x 26 cm. in portfolio measuring 32 x 27 cm. - 12 albumen photoprints, mounted on card, in portfolio
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Young woman, fur headdress and necklace, half length
  2. Man, feather headdress, half length
  3. Man seated, woman and young [woman] reclining, by bark shelter
  4. Man standing with spear, woman seated with boomerang, dead kangaroo by bark shelter
  5. Man standing, with breastplate [&] spear; two women, one old and one young, by bark shelter
  6. Two women seated, full length, with two children, by a bark shelter
  7. Woman standing, full length, with child seated to her right
  8. Two men, one young and one old, both seated [&] dressed in trousers
  9. Young man, seated, with boomerangs and skin rug
  10. Two men, one standing, full length; one, half length, by a bark shelter
  11. Bearded man, with fur headdress and skin rug, seated, full length,
  12. Bearded man, with fur headdress and cloth, standing, full length
• General note
  
  Titled from portfolio cover.
  None of the plates is titled. All titles given above are assumed.
  Lindt took at least sixty photographs in this series of studio portaits of Clarence River Aborigines, although extant albums usually contain fewer than a dozen each. When first published, these studio tableaux were regarded as accurate. Reference: An Eye for Photography: the camera in Australia / Alan Davies. Carlton, Vic : Melbourne University Press, 2004, p.60.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824198
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from portfolio cover.
  None of the plates is titled. All titles given above are assumed.
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  children
  girls
  boys
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  portraits
  
• Place
  Clarence River (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eye 4 photography
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE16028849

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