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14/05/2025

Teenminnie, a Ngarrindjeri mother in possum skin cloak carrying her toddler on her back, Adelaide region, South Australia, circa. 1870s.

Collection: State Library of Victoria
Photographer: Samuel White Sweet (1825–1886)

Australian indigenous sign languages have a rich and diverse history. some speculate that rock art may contain evidence ...
03/05/2025

Australian indigenous sign languages have a rich and diverse history. some speculate that rock art may contain evidence of early forms of signing, documented accounts of sign languages in isolated Indigenous communities emerged from 1874 onwards. These sign languages are primarily used by hearing individuals and are integral to cultural practices, often used to communicate when speaking is taboo or for hunting

'Arnhem Land Warriors'around 1911. Photographer:Ted Ryko. Source: Museums Victoria
03/05/2025

'Arnhem Land Warriors'
around 1911. Photographer:
Ted Ryko. Source: Museums Victoria

02/05/2025

Sketch of explorer Edmund Kennedy, ca. 1848. State Library of Queensland - John Oxley Library - Submitted by Antony Roth

In 1848 the Assistant-Surveyor of New South Wales, Edmund Kennedy, led an expedition to explore Cape York Peninsula. In the previous year he had discovered the Thomson River and established that the Barcoo River was part of Cooper's Creek. Arriving at Rockingham Bay (north of Townsville) in May, Kennedy's party, after much privation and toil, reached Weymouth Bay, where they established a depot. Kennedy, with four others, Costigan, Dunn, Luff, and a Indigenous Australian, Jacky Jacky, left this depot in an endeavour to reach Cape York, where a relief ship was expected.

Kennedy and Jacky Jacky continued north, after leaving the others at Shelburne Bay. Only Jacky Jacky reached Cape York, for in a skirmish with other Indigenous Australians, Kennedy was killed. Jacky Jacky guided the ship's relief party to Shelburne Bay, but Costigan, Dunn, and Luff had perished. At the Weymouth Bay depot, only two survivors were found. (Information taken from: Teachers Internet database 2005)

01/05/2025

Archaeological evidence shows that modern humans had reached South-east Asia by 70,000 years ago and that they had spread to Australia by at least 50,000 years ago.

A recent study led by Dr. Ana Paula Motta, in collaboration with the Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, has uncovered a...
01/05/2025

A recent study led by Dr. Ana Paula Motta, in collaboration with the Balanggarra Aboriginal Corporation, has uncovered a previously unknown style of rock art in Australia’s north-east Kimberley region. The findings, recently published in Australian Archaeology, propose the addition of a new category to the current Kimberley rock art sequence: the Linear Naturalistic Figures (LNF)

archaeological evidence suggests that Aboriginal Australians were among the first people in the world to make stone axes...
30/04/2025

archaeological evidence suggests that Aboriginal Australians were among the first people in the world to make stone axes, particularly those with ground-edge technology. A fragment of a stone axe, possibly the oldest known axe with a handle, has been found in Western Australia, dating back to 44,000 to 49,000 years ago. This discovery indicates that the axe technology may have been developed in Australia after people arrived on the continent around 50,000 years ago

30/04/2025

A fine collection of Queensland throwing clubs late 19th early 20th cen. Ten average length 69cm
Ex Lord Mcalpine collection Bishops house Perth

Native Troopers dispersing a camp. Picturesque Atlas of Australia. 1888. -Submitted by Antony Roth"Australian native pol...
30/04/2025

Native Troopers dispersing a camp. Picturesque Atlas of Australia. 1888. -Submitted by Antony Roth

"Australian native police were specialised mounted military units consisting of detachments of Aboriginal troopers under the command of European officers appointed by British colonial governments. The units existed in various forms in colonial Australia during the nineteenth and, in some cases, into the twentieth centuries. From temporary base camps and barracks, Native Police were primarily used to patrol the often vast geographical areas along the colonial frontier, in order to conduct indiscriminate raids or punitive expeditions against Aboriginal people. The Native Police proved to be a brutally destructive instrument in the disintegration and dispossession of Indigenous Australians. Armed with rifles, carbines and swords, they were also deployed to es**rt surveying groups, gold convoys, and groups of pastoralists and prospectors."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_native_police

20/04/2025

The first major genomic study of Aboriginal Australians has provided several new pieces in the puzzle of how modern humans spread across the world.

Three Aboriginal warriors with wunda shields spearthrowers and womaras spearthrowers Pilbara western Australia early 20t...
20/04/2025

Three Aboriginal warriors with wunda shields spearthrowers and womaras spearthrowers Pilbara western Australia early 20th century

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