Studio portrait of Neddy Wheeler, standing, Victoria, approximately 1866 / photographer Thomas J. Washbourne

SPF/1327

fonds

approximately 1866

Graphic Materials, Photographs

909968

1 photographic print - 10.2 x 6.4 cm (carte de visite format) - albumen

Neddy Wheeler was an Aboriginal Australian man from Victoria. He was the son of King Billy Elengeit and Queen Mary, and the husband of Charlotte.

References:
Lawrence, Ruth E. "Thomas Jeston Washbourne’s photographs of Indigenous Australians." La Trobe Journal, no. 107 (November 2022): 107-11. Accessed 9 December 2022.
https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/stories/our-publications/la-trobe-journal/la-trobe-journal-no-107-november-2022

Photograph of Aboriginal Australian Neddy Wheeler, standing, wearing an animal skin cloak and holding a boomerang.

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State library of New South Wales

Title devised by cataloguer in 2022 based on research by Dr Ruth E Lawrence.

Previously titled [Yarra Aboriginal man in kangaroo skins]

The man in this photograph has also been identified as 'Freddy Wheeler'. [see Album of photographic portraits of Australian Aboriginal men and women. National Library of Australia, PIC/15590/1-14 LOC Album 1169]
Transferred from SPF/Australian Aborigines -- Vic. (BM), October 2010

Inscribed in ink on verso of photograph by unknown person, 'Blacks, Yarra'.

Previously dated 1870. Date changed to approximately 1866 based on information supplied by Dr Ruth E Lawrence in 2022