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673 photos and 18 illustrations tagged aboriginal, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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• indigenous
• firstnations
• naidoc
• australianhistory
• naidocweek
• aboriginalculture
• celebrationoffirstnations
• firstnationspeople
• truthtelling
• reconciliation
• queensland
• forourelders
• naidoc2023
• nationalportraitgallery
• reconciliationaustralia
• slq
• album
• ravenshoe
• woorabinda
• apa111
• mission
• australia
• state
• library

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• State Library of Queensland 604 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 45 photos & illustrations
• British Library 18 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 8 photos & illustrations
• Royal Australian Historical Society 5 photos & illustrations
• Musée McCord Stewart Museum 4 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• National Science and Media Museum 1 photo / illustration
• Galt Museum & Archives on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 1 photo / illustration
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 1 photo / illustration

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Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos & illustrations:

Men working with new platform and truck line, Yarrabah, ca.1923

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Cultural practices, particularly language ceremonies and beliefs were all suppressed during these mission days. Traditional values were transformed swiftly to adopt clothing, and Christianity replaced traditional creation stories. Hunter gathering was discouraged and with the arrival of people from other cultural groups, Gungganji cultural protocols were dismissed. While the Christian missions did help save many Aboriginal people from perishing at the hands of new settlers under the Act of 1897 they controlled curfews, employment, wages, marriages, alcohol and movement outside the mission. Source: www.yarrabah.qld.gov.au/our-history-and-future/

Schwarz Hope Vale Mission photograph albums (0003-0001)

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The children at the mission learned to read and write in Guugu Yimidhirr (which had been transcribed earlier by the missionaries), and the girls helped in the missionaries’ houses and in the garden. It was routine for the girls to be confined to a dormitory each night and to have limited access to their families. Initially, the missionary Wilhelm Poland supervised them closely at Elim while the senior missionary, Georg Heinrich Schwarz, attempted to establish a second station at Hope Valley. This arrangement was altered in 1890 after the older girls, including Mulun, secretly invited Guugu Yimidhirr boys into their dormitory at night. Thereafter the older girls were periodically sent to Hope Valley to stay with Schwarz. Source: ia.anu.edu.au/biography/mulun-magdalena-29712

Maggie and Queen Kitty, right, standing next to the doorway of a timber hut, Ravenshoe, 1933-1934

from State Library of Queensland

• Flickr Foundation said:

  I've added some information on Queen Kitty on her father's page on Wikipedia.
  
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multuggerah#Legacy

• State Library of Queensland said:

  Flickr Foundation Thank you for doing that. As an Aboriginal I am trying to get more information out there on my culture and people through presenting historical photographs of the past.