#balwinspencers #traditional #aboriginal #beautiful #attending #carrying #coolamon #grasses #baskets #ancient #weaving #mothers #cradle #photos #dillyOne of Balwin-Spencer's beautiful photos of an ancient, traditional "cradle" - the coolamon. Aboriginal mothers would place it at their feet so they could rock it with their big toes, while attending to other tasks live weaving dilly bags or carrying baskets from dry grasses.

Aborigines

Rare Prints, Maps, Photographs, Paintings, Books

Trucaninny, wife of Woureddy [Trucaninny, wife of Wouraddy] 1836 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Tasmanian Aboriginal people had many dialects | KennisTranslations Magazine | Scoop.it

The Tasmanian Aborigines were wiped out by European settlers. However, their demise may have started eons ago when they lost the knowledge, skills and desire to fish. How did this happen?

Eclectic. Beautiful. A great place. This is how Gunnai man Robert Young describes Melbourne. But it's also a place he struggles with.

Truganini and Woureddy

The "Last of the Aboriginal Tasmanians" (she wasn't) used brains, brawn, and sheer will to carve a place for herself, even as the world was collapsing around her.

An Aboriginal object so sacred that for a woman to see it "would mean death" has been put up for auction in the UK.

Indigenous Australian history

Aboriginal elder in possum skin cloak and woven string bag, with spear. Victoria. late nineteenth century.

Australian aboriginal woman and child in possum skin cloak, Victoria Late nineteenth century

The largest and most impressive series of portraits of the South Australian Aboriginals made during the colonial period.

Scarce German lithograph depicting an aboriginal family at camp. Good detail of implements and weapons. Often incorrectly date earlier but this series was only first published in 1891.

No title (Two Koori women) | Douglas T. KILBURN | NGV | View Work