Australian Half Caste Aborigines, circa 1882

carte de visite

Carte de visite, albumen print on white card; Australian Half Caste 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; two Australian Aboriginal women, one baby, assumed to be half Aboriginal, half white, women are bare-chested and wearing skirts, one with head covering; handwritten on back "Australian/ Half Caste/ Aborigines".