Aboriginal people of New South Wales. Album of photographs by C. Kerry, 1898.

Sydney (308 Geo. St.) : Kerry & Co. Photo, [1898?]

1 photograph album (20 leaves, 40 photographs) : albumen prints ; sheets approximately 20 x 15 cm or 15 x 20 cm, mounts approximately 27 x 34 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/42/88

Aboriginals N.S.W. There are inscriptions in the negatives (printed in white on the prints). Parts of the inscriptions are repeated in captions inscribed on the mount: these captions are transcribed in this record

Fol. 1r: Distributing blankets to Aboriginals

Fol. 1v: Aboriginal Piccaninnies

Fol. 2r: Aboriginals' Camp, "group of gins."

Fol. 2v: Group of Northern Territory natives

Fol. 3r: Wermugga Corroboree

Fol. 3v: Aboriginals' Corroboree

Fol. 4r: Aboriginals' Corroboree

Fol. 4v: Aboriginal Corroboree

Fol. 5r: Aboriginals' Corroboree, "drafting sheep."

Fol. 5v: Aboriginals' Corroboree, "a battle."

Fol. 6r: Fish Corroboree

Fol. 6v: Aboriginals "tracking."

Fol. 7r: Bora Corroboree

Fol. 7v: Aboriginal ceremony, "the bora tree."

Fol. 8r: Aboriginal ceremony, "opening the bora"

Fol. 8v: Aboriginal Bora, "arrival of the novices."

Fol. 9r: Aboriginal Bora, "crossing the mystic figures."

Fol. 9v: Aboriginal Bora, "leaving the bora ground."

Fol. 10r: The King's Mia Mia.

Fol. 10v: Aboriginal's Mia Mia, N.S.W.

Fol. 11r: Aboriginal's Mia Mia, N.S.W.

Fol. 11v: Aboriginal's Mia Mia, N.S.W.

Fol. 12r: Aboriginal's Mia Mia, N.S.W.

Fol. 12v: Aboriginal ceremony, "warriors in ambush."

Fol. 13r: Aboriginal ceremony, "the sick warrior."

Fol. 13v: Aboriginal Corroboree, "healing the sick warrior."

Fol. 14r: Aboriginal Bora, "waiting for instructions."

Fol. 14v: Aboriginal Bora, "approaching the King's ground."

Fol. 15r: Aboriginal ceremony, "arrival of the King."

Fol. 15v: Aboriginal Bora, "waiting the decision of the Kings."

Fol. 16r: Aboriginal Bora, "approaching the Deity."

Fol. 16v: Aboriginals worshipping figure of the Deity.

Fol. 17r: Aboriginal ceremony, "following the footsteps of the Deity."

Fol. 17v: Aboriginal ceremony, "death of the Deity."

Fol. 18r: Aboriginal ceremony, "lying in wait."

Fol. 18v: Aboriginal ceremony, "gathering wild birds eggs."

Fol. 19r: Aboriginal ceremony, "spearing the wild bull."

Fol. 19v: Aboriginal ceremony, "spearing the alligator."

Fol. 20r: Aboriginal ceremony, "death of the wild boar."

Fol. 20v: Aboriginal ceremony, "a duel to the death."

Nicole Peduzzi, 'Useful, artistic and valuable: Charles Kerry's historical postcards (1893-1917)', paper at Unpacking the collection: museums, identity and agency, World Archaeological Congress (WAC-6), Dublin 2008

Wellcome Collection 38104i