Coronation picnic for Mary Ann Sullivan, Queen of the Ngoorumbah Aborigines (New England Tribe), 190...
Coronation picnic for Mary Ann Sullivan, Queen of the Ngoorumbah Aborigines (New England Tribe), 190...
Coronation picnic for Mary Ann Sullivan, Queen of the Ngoorumbah Aborigines (New England Tribe), 1909
About this item
Full title
Date
1909
Call Numbers
SPG/187
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
Physical Description
Contents
1 photograph - 14.3 cm x 19.3 cm - silver gelatin
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
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Access Conditions
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955
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Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Contents
1 silver gelatin photograph entitled "Bundarra" and "Ngoorumbah Aboriginies". It depicts a group of Indigenous people dressed in formal Victorian clothing; the women in high-necked blouses and skirts down to their ankles and the men in suits, vests and ties. The women’s picnic hats lie on the ground in front of them. Mary Ann Sullivan is shown wear...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Coronation picnic for Mary Ann Sullivan, Queen of the Ngoorumbah Aborigines (New England Tribe), 1909
Notes
General note
Queen Mary Ann Sullivan is mentioned in a number of sources held in the Library including articles in Dawn, a magazine published between 1952-1975 by the New South Wales Aborigines Welfare Board. In the October 1952 issue of Dawn, Florence (Florrie) Munro records that Sullivan was crowned, and that “One of the station owners placed a broad ribb...
Conservation note
Good condition with light marks/spotting to sky; light scratching visible when magnified.
Object History
Purchased by the vendor as an estate purchase in the 1990s, when it was in an album formerly belonging to G.E. Jones, headmaster of Bundarra Public School, who achieved fame for his development of a phonics system. The remainder of the album is said to have contained photographs of Bundarra Public School & local views.
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Ancanthe, 30 June 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
Mary Ann Sullivan (d.1916) was the daughter of an Irish settler and an Aboriginal mother. Her mother died when Sullivan was aged about seven, and her father sent her to a convent from where she escaped, severely cutting her hands when scaling a high tin wall. She lived at the Stoney Creek Mission at Ngoorumbah, about 12 miles from Bundarra in the...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
SPG/187
Record Identifier
nvgPxJE1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nvgPxJE1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
1001371
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