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The National Library of Australia is the country's largest reference library. Our role is to ensure that documentary resources of national significance relating to Australia and the Australian people, as well as significant non-Australian library materials, are collected, preserved and made accessible either through the Library itself or through collaborative arrangements with other libraries and information providers.
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Portrait of John Dease interviewing Gino Mattera, 1953 uploaded March 2019
Kerry Norton, an Australian actress, rehearsing a 2GB radio play uploaded March 2019
AWA radio-electric works at Ashfield, Sydney, approximately 1937, 3 uploaded March 2019
Russian orchestra at 2CH, Sydney, 17 September 1936, 2 uploaded March 2019
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Unidentified woman seated outdoors on a rug with tea set and books, circa 1906
- Disillusioned Spring said:
Group of Aboriginals at Chowilla Station on the lower Murray River, South Australia
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mgw_wgw said:
Life on the river in 1866! An interesting anthropological image. -- Seen on blog.flickr.net ( ?² )
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James said:
Wonderful historic photograph
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Chief Swim said:
You mean a group of aborigines (noun) and not the adjective: aboriginals.
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James said:
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/jacksonstreet] The word 'Aboriginal' is frequently used as a noun these days, being short for 'Aboriginal people'. In fact, many Aboriginal people much prefer it to 'Aborigines' which for them has developed negative connotations. www.commonground.org.au/learn/aboriginal-or-indigenous
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Chief Swim said:
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Group of people, one with a banjo, outside a tent, Australia, ca. 1900
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Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
This image is reversed compared to the Trove version. The Trove one is probably correct as it shows the banjo player in the usual right hand playing stance. This would make the tin whistle player correctly using the dominant right hand on the lower part of the instrument; unless of course both players are using left handed style like Jimi Hendrix. The other clue is the shirt and waist coat buttons - men have buttons on the right as in the Trove version. Note also the senior man next to the whistle player wearing a king plate which is unfortunately illegible. See: Introduction to King Plates: A History of Aboriginal Gorgets - www.nma.gov.au/explore/features/aboriginal-breastplates/i... There is a second man holding a tin whistle at waist height to the right of the man wearing the king plate, and the man in the striped shirt appears to be holding a set of bones ready for playing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bones_(instrument) Also King Merriman - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbarra "Your dominant hand should be at the bottom to keep the whistle steady while the other hand should stay on top." : www.celticmusicinstruments.com/how-to-play-the-tin-whistle/ Here’s Why Men’s and Women’s Clothes Button on Opposite Sides www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-why-mens-and-wome...
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