Exercise wtih the Boomerang by Aborigines of Australia, circa 1882

carte de visite

PHOTOGRAPHS
Australia
circa 1882
paper
overall: 2-3/8 x 4 in.

Carte de visite, albumen print mounted on white card; Exercise with the Boomerang by Aborigines of Australia, circa 1882 (see Manuscript Coll. 311); collected by Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899) during his travels as a shipmaster to the South Pacific; two Aboriginal men of Australia, both standing outdoors, shirtless, wearing pants and shoes, engaging in activities with boomerangs; handwritten on back "Exercise with the/ Boomerang [?]/ by Aborigines of/ Australia".


2005.34.17

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