Contrasts & Comparisons
Indigenous Cultures in the 19th Century

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120 Kerry & Co.
Aboriginal Throwing Boomerang, c.1890s. Albumen paper print, signed & title in plate, blind stamp on image, 20 x 15cm.
Reconstructed studio setting, similar to Lindt.

$890
121 Kerry & Co.
Aboriginal Mia Mia, c.1890s. Albumen paper print, signed & title in plate, blind stamp on image, 15 x 19.5cm. On original backing paper.

$790
122 Henry King
Samoan Girls Preparing Kava, c.1890s. Albumen paper print, signed & titled in the plate, 15 x 20cm.
Studio setting, with painted backdrop and grass mats.

$690
123 Henry King
Samoan Islander, c.1890s. Albumen paper print, signed & titled in the plate, 20.5 x 15cm.
Studio setting, with painted backdrop and vegetation.

$590
124 Henry King
Samoan Princess, 1890s. Albumen paper print, signed & titled in the plate, 20.4 x 15cm.
Studio setting, with painted backdrop and vegetation.

$590
125 Henry King
Fijian Women preparing Native Grog, c.1890s. Albumen paper print, signed & titled in the image, 15.5 x 20cm.
Studio setting, with woman sitting on grass mats.

$690
126 J.W. Lindt
(Portrait of Aboriginal Man with Snake and Boomerang), c.1874. Albumen paper print, 19.8 x 15cm.
Outdoor setting reconstructed in Lindt's studio in Grafton, NSW.

$1,750
127 J.W. Lindt
(Portrait Aboriginal Man with two Boomerangs, seated beside two women), c.1874. Albumen paper print, 19.2 x 14cm.
Outdoor setting reconstructed in Lindt's studio in Grafton, NSW.

$1,750
128 J.W. Lindt
(Portrait of Aboriginal Man and Woman, with dead Kangaroo), c.1874. Albumen paper print, 19.7 x 15cm.
Outdoor setting reconstructed in Lindt's studio in Grafton, NSW. The best-known of Lindt's studio portraits, as it has often been reproduced in Australia and overseas over the last 100 years as a portrait of the archetypal aboriginal couple.

$1,900

Contrasts & Comparisons
Indigenous Cultures in the 20th Century
129 Laurence Le Guay
New Guinea Couple, c.1955/later printing. Silver gelatin print, posthumous estate stamp verso, 36.5 x 28.7cm.
Le Guay was commissioned by Sir Edward Halstrom to visit New Guinea.

$1,650
130 Laurence Le Guay
Tahitians, 1975. Silver gelatin print, posthumous estate stamp verso, 24.7 x 27cm.

$1,250
131 Jon Lewis
Little Ross, Oenpelli, Arnhemland, 1987. Silver gelatin print, signed, dated & titled verso, 38.3 x 48cm.

$950
132 Tracey Moffatt
Arnhemland, 1985. Colour print, titled, dated and signed verso, 36.5 x 50cm.
Group of Aboriginal men and children in a bush setting. 'This image seems to be a pair to The Movie Star' 1985' inscribed verso.

$3,500

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