Australian Aborigines, circa 1882

carte de visite

Carte de visite, albumen print on white card; Australian Aborigines, circa 1882 (see Manuscript Coll. 311); collected by Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899) during his travels as a shipmaster to the South Pacific; three Aboriginal Australian men, two standing, one sitting, all bare chested and wearing loincloths, all three heavily bearded; handwritten on back "Australian/ Aborigines".