Washing day at Yancannia Station, photograph, ca. 1905
Washing day at Yancannia Station, photograph, ca. 1905
About this item
Full title
Date
1905
Call Numbers
SPG/184
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photograph - 8.7 cm x 13.7 cm - silver gelatin
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
Approval for reproduction required : Indigenous Services (State Library of New South Wales)
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
1 photographic postcard by an unidentified photographer depicting some Indigenous Australians at Yancannia station dressed in European clothes. This postcard is addressed to Freyda Shaw, the daughter of Yancannia Station’s owner Oliphant Shaw. The three women and the young girl are probably mmbers of the dwindling Maliangapa tribe, who had a camp o...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Washing day at Yancannia Station, photograph, ca. 1905
Notes
Signature / Inscriptions
Verso reads "Washing day at Yancannia".
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Ancanthe, June 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
The group are likely members of the Maliangapa tribe, who had a camp near the creek on the Yancannia station. Some of the tribe worked as shepherds, labourers and household workers on the station. Maliangapa territory had once extended between the Barrier and Grey Ranges along New South Wales’ western border.
The Shaw family, to whom the pos...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SPG/184
Record Identifier
92ebZByY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/92ebZByY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1001360
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