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We acknowledge we are on Kaurna Miyurna land. The Dreaming is still living. From the past, in the present, into the future, forever.

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Group of Aboriginal men and a woman, Kingston

Archive Collections / Charles Newling / Group of Aboriginal men and a woman, Kingston
Date Range1890  -  1890
CollectionCharles Newling
Quantity   1   Photograph 14.75x11.75"
Series IdentifierAA234/1

Photograph of six Aboriginal men and one woman sitting or leaning in front of a fabric shelter. The two men in the centre hold No. 7 boomerangs. The woman (on the right-hand side) wears a head scarf. The photo is signed 'Chas Newling' on bottom right hand corner. On the bottom left hand corner is written in red ink 'Kingston Natives, C. Newling, 1890'. On the margin in the bottom right hand corener is 'Natives, Lacapede Bay, SA, 1895' in different handwriting. On the back is written 'Photo taken at Kingston (South East) in 1890 by Chas Newling'. Also written on the back is 'Queen Catherine' corresponding with the woman, and 'The Queen's Consort' apparently indicating the man sitting in front of her. The man standing in front of the shelter wearing a striped shirt is indicated as 'Geo Gibson, "Chief Secretary"'.

There is a photograph in the NB Tindale Collection (AA338/5/15/155) that is very similar. Each of the people in the photograph are identified by his or her European name and Tindale has also provided details of each person's birthplace or home locality, as well as moiety and sometimes their Aboriginal name.

Published in the Observer, Adelaide 4 January 1913. p29. Also in Survival in Our Own Land, p41.

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