Dick Cubadgee (1870-1889) Aboriginal guide and cultural broker was born near Tennant Creek, South Australia (Northern Territory, second son of a ceremonial leader of the Warumungu people, known to Europeans as 'King Tapanunga'. Cubadgee succumbed to a secondary infection and died of 'tubercular meningitis' on 15 September 1889, aged 19. See full biographical details in Australian Dictionary of Biography.

2 Sepia photographs mounted on board (card 10.6x16.3cm; photograph 10.4x13.6cm). Presented to the Collection by Nora Lindsay (daughter of David Lindsay (1856-1922), 12 May 1954.

1. Portrait of Dick Cubbagee AP4929

2. Dick Cubbagee in European clothes AP4928