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Victoria (state)

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Subject Source: Local sources

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Natives spearing fish from a dug-out, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/90
Scope and Contents 210 x 158 mm. A study of Aboriginal Australian fishermen, showing three men in a small dug-out canoe, one of whom holds a spear while others stand or sit on a tree trunk which juts into the river. Photograph by Charles Bayliss (stamped in relief on corner of print). The positive identification of this print as Bayliss' leads to the supposition that the previous Aboriginal Australian photographs are by him. They too display the same compositional exactitude and a striving to include as much...
Dates: 1888 - 1889
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