Mid-North Coast: Photographs of Bundjalung people, Richmond River, NSW, c 1865
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Bundjalung people are seen in these photographs with the objects they used in their daily lives. Description:
Full catalogue record available online at: http://archival.sl.nsw.gov.au/Details/archive/110324243
Cultural Narrative:
Bundjalung people are seen in these photographs with the objects they used in their daily lives. They wear government-issued blankets over their ceremonial scarred and painted bodies. Believed to be the earliest photographs of the Bundjalung, they were probably taken by Conrad Wagner, who operated a photographic studio at Grafton in north-eastern New South Wales.
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c 1865Source:
Presented by Mr J. A. Horniman, Sept. 1975 Pic.Acc.3440Identifier:
PXB 133, items 1–4; FL988549–FL988552Related Digital Heritage Items:
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