The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)Saturday 16 March 1946 Supplement: The Argus Week-end Magazine p 7 Article Illustrated
These pictures have been sent in by readers, and for every picture published a special reproduction fee of 10/6 is paid. Address your entries to "Cameroddities," c/o THE ARGUS, 365 Elizabeth street, Melbourne, C.I. ... 235 words
The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 - 1954)Saturday 20 July 1946 p 4 Article Illustrated
THIS week you read the story of the Bathurst Island aboriginal who "crossed 70 miles of some of the roughest country in this part of the world" in nine days to deliver a message from a party stranded in a wrecked launch off Melville Island. THE native runner's feat was ... 643 words
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)Saturday 30 May 1942 p 7 Article Illustrated
So uncanny is the bushcraft of the Austr[?] that they could quickly detect, or even [?] [?] force before anybody else was [?] I give [?] and instances here to prove that [?] ... 975 words
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954)Wednesday 26 July 1950 p 11 Article Illustrated
Darwin.—Famous American choreographer Ted Shawn, recognised as one of world's best male dancers, has paid a magnificent tribute to Australian aboriginal dancer Mosick, who died here recently. ... 293 words
The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939)Thursday 15 October 1931 p 26 Article Illustrated
The Governor (Sir John Goodwin), with Mr. J. H. S. Barnes (president of the Show Society), opening the rodeo. Seated, are Lady Goodwin, Mrs. J. H. S. Barnes, Mrs. G. P. Barnes, and Mr. G. P. Barnes, M.L.A. —Armitstead photo. ... 105 words
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)Saturday 6 February 1937 p 13 Article Illustrated
A typical study of an aboriginal in the buah of the Northern Territory. He is looking out for other members of his tribe during a corroboree. ... 31 words
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)Saturday 19 July 1930 p 18 Article Illustrated
Left: A warrior ready for a corroboree Centre: A Pinto woman grinding grass seed for food. Right: A typical old man of the tribe. (Copyright.) ... 37 words
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)Friday 1 August 1930 Supplement: Saturday Camera Supplement p 8 Article Illustrated
These photographs illustrate the fourth and last of a scries of articles which appears in the literary pages of "The Argus" to-day, by our special representative with the Mackay Acrial Survey Expedition, entitled "In Central Australia." ... 97 words
The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954)Wednesday 20 December 1933 p 22 Article Illustrated
Some of the aboriginal participants inue in aid of Anzac House funds. The features of the carnival being conducted at Nedlands by the Nedlands sub branch of the Returned Soldiers' Leag the corroboree which is one of the main photograph was taken at a rehearsal yesterday morning. ... 97 words
Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954)Sunday 4 December 1938 p 4 Article Illustrated
BLACK ROYALTY! This boy, Peter, son of the king of the Catherine tribe, will probably be taken to Sydney, in January for the Northern Territory exhibition. ... 124 words
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)Saturday 12 August 1939 p 17 Article Illustrated
That there were some people ready to [?]ploit the wandering bands of black[?] [?]lows which still hung round the metro[?] [?]lis in the late fifties is shown by an ... 179 words
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)Saturday 9 February 1935 p 20 Article Illustrated
CORROBOREE WAR PAINT contrasted strangely with the white men's trousers which these aboriginal men wore at Alice Springs. At the present time, Alice Springs is the focal point of interest in Central Australia, as for the first time the Supreme Court is holding its sessions there. ... 269 words
The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954)Tuesday 3 May 1932 p 14 Article Illustrated
The Rev. James Watson, of Victoria, who has come to Western Australia as a deputation on behalf of the Methodist Foreign Missionary Society of Australia. ... 483 words
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954)Friday 4 September 1931 p 8 Article Illustrated
The group was taken by Mr A. [?] Cummings, of Hobart, during a trip [?] Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef. The native posed for him be o[?]e giving what proved a rather [?]tting demonstration of warlike enthusiasm. ... 34 words
The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)Thursday 13 February 1936 p 23 Article Illustrated
I HAVE written much of their limitations, and now I can turn to the expression of the idealism, the upward trending that has stirred every ... 1832 words
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)Saturday 29 January 1938 Supplement: The Argus Week-end Magazine p 12 Article Illustrated
MISSIONARIES who go forth into the wilderness and the jungles of Australia to preach the gospel of Christianity to the most primitive of all ... 2091 words
Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW : 1888 - 1954)Saturday 27 July 1935 p 7 Article Illustrated
FINE FEATHERS MAKE FINE BIRDS.— Putting the last feather on the "leading bird" in the Native Companion Corroboree, near Arltunga. The chief actors are made up with hawk down, which is stuck on to the bodies with human blood. A picture taken by Capt. Frank Hurley during his recent trip to North Australia for films for inclusion in the two South Australian centenary talkie travelogues.. ... 68 words
Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954)Thursday 12 March 1936 p 10 Article Illustrated
THE aboriginal has been placed by scientists in the lowest scale of humanity, yet he has his religion, a universal religion of both the first and ... 2315 words
The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)Tuesday 21 December 1937 p 13 Article Illustrated
AN Australian Aborigine, strictly speaking, is not a nomad but a food-gatherer and hunter. In arid Central Australia he has to room wildely in ... 1564 words
The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954)Thursday 5 January 1933 p 29 Article Illustrated
ALTHOUGH it cannot be rightly said that the Swan River Settlement was pioneered in blood, England did in time pay in lives for the spread of her ... 4726 words
The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)Friday 8 April 1938 p 1 Article Illustrated
Badungga and Willie, aborigines from the Methodist mission station at Milingimbi Island, 300 miles east of Darwin, arrayed themselves in their "war paint" and went through the evolutions of a corroboree, in a Brisbane suburban garden ... 90 words
Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 - 1954)Saturday 22 April 1933 p 6 Article Illustrated
—Aborigines, noting the white man's wireless, have paid concession to progress by wearing model aerials for headgear during their corroborees. At the same time the "orchestra," with backs turned to the camera in the picture, provide the same weird "music" as in ... 74 words
Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954)Sunday 4 December 1938 p 3 Article Illustrated
ABORIGINES of a semi-wild tribe holding a corroboree at Rosewood, Northern Territory. These pictures were taken by an expedition led by Mr. A. H. Stuart, of Sydney, which recently investigated the possibilities of development of the Northern Territory. ... 83 words
The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933)Wednesday 23 July 1930 p 16 Article Illustrated
The scene in the old Art Gallery, George-street, yesterday afternoon, immediately after the opening of the Southern States' art exhibition by his Excellency the Governor (Sir John Goodwin), Spoon-feeding a small-wallaby caught in the Ehrenberg Ranges, Central Australia, by a member of the Mackay Aerial Survey Expedition. ... 144 words
Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954)Friday 11 December 1936 p 14 Article Illustrated
AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS are natural mimics and actors aod make a critical audience. They produce their own playwrights and authors. This applies particularly to the still wild stone-age man. The successful author of a ... 187 words
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)Thursday 20 January 1938 p 14 Article Illustrated
Above: Some of the men who were wounded in the bombing of the U.S.A. gunboat, Panay, being taken aboard a rescuing craft before the Panay sank. Right: Captain G. E. M. O'Donnell, Flag-Captain of the British Yang[?]se [?]otilla, directing the rescu[?]s, although himself wounded. He was hit when the British gunboat, Ladybird, was shelled. ... 224 words
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)Tuesday 3 November 1936 p 21 Article Illustrated
The two outstanding impressions gained by a medical member of the recent anthropological expedition to Central Australia were the happy, carefree lives of the aborigines who have net come in contact with civilisation, and the physical fitness of ... 927 words
Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954)Thursday 10 March 1921 Section: PICTORIAL SECTION p 4 Article Illustrated
Blackfellow Creek, Rosewood Station. Carting Water from Stockade Creek, Rosewood Station. off on a Holiday Jaunt. Outbuildings at Ivanhoe station. ... 76 words
The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil (Melbourne, Vic. : 1873 - 1889)Monday 29 June 1885 p 97 Article Illustrated
We give this time as a special supplement a reproduction in colours of Mrs. Butler's famous picture of "The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras," which now has its home in our National Gallery. The picture is one of the most ... 2504 words
The Queenslander (Brisbane, Qld. : 1866 - 1939)Wednesday 13 April 1938 p 31 Article Illustrated
WOMEN will get most of the limelight this year at Wimbledon, where teams from Australia and South Africa will compete with the stars of England and other countries for the coveted titles. Such an array of feminine lawn tennis talent will never have been seen ... 451 words
The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)Monday 1 February 1954 p 3 Article Illustrated
MORE than 10,000 Brisbane people yesterday packed around the Botanic Gardens orchestra shell for an Australia Day concert. Aborigines. New ... 406 words
Australian Town and Country Journal (NSW : 1870 - 1907)Saturday 18 June 1870 p 17 Article Illustrated
A TALENTED CORRESPONDENT thus describes a corroboree which waa held recently at Stroud:— It is a dark, very dark night, and the village of Stroud is wrapped in the mournful stillness ... 1450 words
The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931)Friday 21 June 1929 p 18 Article Illustrated
Mr. Thomson describes the clever pantomimes that are sometimes [?]ted at the corroborees of the natives of Cape York Peninsula. He also relates an incident which revealed the "whiteness" of the blackfollow Tommy—the death of a packhorse through being bogged ... 2551 words
The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954)Thursday 29 November 1934 p 7 Article Illustrated
This interesting snapshot was sent by "Smile Away," of Duaringa, and shows the aborigines all dressed and painted up, ready for one of their parties. They are lined up ready to execute one of their dances. ... 77 words
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954)Friday 12 March 1954 p 1 Article Illustrated
The Duke of Edinburgh leans forward to hold on to 21-month-old Douglas Yeates who wandered on to the dais while the Queen and the Duke were watching Northern Territory aborigines performing their wallaby dance at Toowoomba yesterday. ... 45 words
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)Monday 22 March 1954 p 5 Article Illustrated
THE QUEEN yesterday became the first white woman in history to witness an ancient aboriginal corroboree while knowing its secret meaning. ... 243 words
The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933)Monday 11 April 1927 p 20 Article Illustrated
The presentation of boomerangs by aboriginals at Beaudesert. The Duchess is apparently momentarily also interested in the Courier aeroplane. ... 120 words