Group of Wellesley Islanders is seated on the sandy coast of Bayley Island - boat has been pulled up to the shoreline. The fourth figure from the left is the principal old man, named "Alight". Some women and children are wearing shell necklaces.
Remarks: See reprint by Klaatsch H. "Scientific Travel Amongst the Black [Aboriginal] Population of Tropical Australia 1904-6". A.A.A.S. 1907. Plate 2
Previous accession: AP 5620, Acc no 1976 and AA 168