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157 photos and 76 illustrations tagged headdress, from 20 members of Flickr Commons.
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- National Museum of Denmark
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- National Library of Australia
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A selection of photos & illustrations tagged headdress:
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Recent uploads
The last upload was September 2025.
Ceremonial headdress Dhari worn by Erub Samsep tribal men, Torres Strait, ca. 1923 from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2025
Catherine Meek dressed in Russian noblewomans costume 1935 from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2025
Boy from Western Queensland, ca. 1900 2 from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2025
Boy from western Queensland, ca. 1900 from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2025
Portrait of two men and two women, 1864-1869 from State Library of Queensland uploaded June 2025
Group of Australian South Sea Islanders wearing headdresses from State Library of Queensland uploaded January 2025
Large group of Australian South Sea Islander men in ceremonial headdresses from State Library of Queensland uploaded January 2025
A group of Australian South Sea Islander men wearing ceremonial headdresses from State Library of Queensland uploaded January 2025
Murray Islanders in national dress 1960 from State Library of Queensland uploaded September 2021
Man wearing feather headdress Atherton 1890s from State Library of Queensland uploaded October 2020
South Sea Islanders dressed in traditional costume, Mackay, Queensland ca 1890 from State Library of Queensland uploaded October 2020
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Portrait of two men and two women, 1864-1869
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Vesna Verencevic said:
Fashion is reversible. Ones Europeans tried to dress Aboriginal people, today Aboriginal traditional elements are wining the fashion look of Europeans.
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Vesna Verencevic said:
Indigenous Australians have influenced modern Australian dress since first contact. From possum skin cloaks and booka kangaroo capes to shell necklaces in Tasmania, Europeans have been fascinated with Indigenous materials, skills and aesthetics. They have stolen, purchased, borrowed and worn them for more than 200 years. In turn, Indigenous Australians have at times enjoyed wearing soldiers’ red jackets as battle spoils and possibly mocked the Europeans by wearing their top hats cockily in the early streets of Sydney. Later, as First Australians were dispossessed from their lands and herded into reserves and missions, clothing was imposed on them, ranging from shapeless “mother Hubbard” dresses for women to shabby but respectable woolen two-piece suits for men. Traditional dress practices, along with the ceremony, language and music-making, were often banned by the colonisers. Missionaries often taught western-style leatherwork to men and needlecraft to women – yet powerful hybrids of the self-determined dress also emerged, expressing subversive gestures and quiet resistance. In the mid 20th century, missionary nuns in Far North Australia began to allow Indigenous women to craft their own textiles. Brightly coloured fabrics were the result, with unusual combinations of motifs. For some time, Indigenous Australian art was often seen as the future of a distinctively Australian design, as evident in the 1970s energy of Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, but on the whole, Indigenous design was not recognised in its own right. This is now changing - Indigenous fashion design today is being shaped by First Nations people at every level. Source: theconversation.com/how-indigenous-fashion-designers-are-...