• Title
  Ethnology / Original sketches with reference to Sydney / Aboriginals and their homes &c., ca. 1880's
• Call number
  PXA 618
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1880's
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  430319
• Issue Copy
  Digitised : 2014
  
• Physical Description
  1 album (8 ink, 5 pencil drawings) - 28.5 x 22.7 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Old Aboriginal Home, Balmoral Beach, Middle Harbour / J.H. Flynn
  2. Hand painting on rock at Long Bay Middle Harbour / J.H. Flynn pel.
  3. Aboriginal Grave Gunyah, Middle Harbour. Blather-ass Point off Hunters Beach / J.H. Flynn
  4. Hand painting on rock, Old Mans Bay, Middle Harbour
  5. Old Ricketty Dick. Aboriginal of Rose Bay near Sydney. Cousin of old Queen Gooseberry
  6. Aboriginal items taken from out of burying ground Gunyah [12 items including stones and mogo] / AJD
  7. Old Aboriginal Burying ground Gunyah out of which skeletons of Aboriginals were taken by Australian Museum Employees. This is situated up at the head of Middle Harbour River on the left hand side going up ...
  8. Hand painting on rocks at Balmoral Beach near to and alongside, about 20 yards east, the Gunyah see No.1
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  The identity of the compiler of this album is not known.
  Each drawing is preceded by a title page and some of which have a pencil sketch or map. Drawing titles are obtained from accompanying page of descriptions.
  The drawings are executed on an illustrator's card with high contrast suggesting that the work was being prepared for publication.
  Many pages are blank.
  Bound by Corbett Binder, City Chambers, 243 Pitt Street, Sydney
  "D.S. Mitchell" signature appears on front endpapers
  Microfilm - CY 875 (PXA 618)
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1046123
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Stencilled on front endpaper, "9740"
  Some drawings are signed "J.H. Flynn"
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Flynn, J.H.
  
• Name
  Ricketty Dick, d. 1863
  
• Subject
  David Scott Mitchell Collection.
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  burial grounds
  cultural objects (manufactured)
  ethnology
  indigenous artefacts
  portraits
  rock engravings
  rock images
  rock shelters
  
• Place
  Long Bay (Middle Harbour, N.S.W.)
  Middle Harbour (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1067092

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