Series 02: Photographs, postcards and publications of Aboriginal burial grounds, archaeological site...
Series 02: Photographs, postcards and publications of Aboriginal burial grounds, archaeological sites and artifacts, particularly from Western New South Wales, ca. 1920-1944 / photographed mostly by Lindsay Black, Russell Black, C. C. Towle and B. L. Hornsham.
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Date
1920-1944
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Physical Description
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1170 photographs, 12 postcards and clippings and 2 publications
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Series
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
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Scope and Contents
Contents
These photographs include images of cylcons (cylindrical stone artifacts), stone implements, paddles, carved and scarred trees, bora grounds, stencil art, rock art, fisheries (fish traps), middens, stone arrangements, archaeological diggings, mines, landscapes and monuments to explorers. Some images include buildings, cars and people. It includes...
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Full title
Series 02: Photographs, postcards and publications of Aboriginal burial grounds, archaeological sites and artifacts, particularly from Western New South Wales, ca. 1920-1944 / photographed mostly by Lindsay Black, Russell Black, C. C. Towle and B. L. Hornsham.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Some photographs signed on reverse - R. L. Black - probably Reginald Lindsay Black (ie Lindsay Black, not Russell Lindsay Black his son).
Chiefly captioned on reverse
Published information
Many of these photographs appear in Lindsay Black's publications :¶¶Burial trees : being the first of a series on the Aboriginal customs of the Darling Valley and Central New South Wales, Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1941.¶¶Cylcons : the mystery stones of the Darling River Valley, [Leeton, N.S.W. : L.Black], 1942.¶¶The bora ground : being a con...
Contextual Information
Administrative / Biographical history
Lindsay Black was an amateur archaeologist from Leeton, NSW.
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Record Identifier
1JkmKPXY
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1JkmKPXY
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Reference code
873617
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