Aboriginal Australian Tribes
Origins / Location : Africa (approximately 65,000 to 75,000 years ago). Indigenous to Australia.
Names : Aboriginal / First Peoples / First Nations / Indigenous Australians
Languages : Estimated around 250 to over 360 languages ( Wiradjuri, Bundjalung, Gamilaraay, Pitjantjatjara, and Arrernte.)
Religion : Diverse but centred on "The Dreaming" (or Dreamtime) and Animism.
A lesson in spinning string, Central Australia.
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Aboriginal child asleep in a wooden dish, central Australia, ca. 1940s
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Aboriginal couple wearing kangaroo cloaks. The man is posed with a shield and a spear, while the woman is holding a sword club (ca. 1880).
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Aboriginal rainmakers, 1898, Farina, South Australia
Truganini: The life story of the last surviving Tasmanian Aboriginal | The Vintage News
Aboriginal rock painting of Megafauna, Quinkan rock art, Laura, QLD
Aboriginal man Photograph by Pre Eighteenth Cetury
Australia 1902. Woman with possum
Aboriginal boy with turkey
Australia: Arnhem land Rock Art
Dinjimanne and family, South of Mt Woodroffe, south-central Musgrave Ranges, South Australia Photo by Herbert Basedow
A group of Aboriginal men in possum-skin cloaks and blankets, 1858, Penshurst, Victoria
Aboriginal boy holding two infant wallabies or kangaroos
Aboriginal woman in a kangaroo skin cloak carrying a child, South Australia, ca. 1860.
Aboriginal man with painted shield, boomerangs and dead snake, New South Wales, Australia. ca. 1905
Aboriginal man making boomerang, New South Wales, Australia, ca. 1905.
Photograph - Aboriginal man holding a broad shield, Antoine Fauchery and Richard Daintree (photographers), c. 1858, State Library Victoria
Photograph - Aboriginals' farm near Mount Franklin, Antoine Fauchery and Richard Daintree (photographers), c. 1858, State Library of Victoria
Photograph - Women and children in possum skins, Antoine Fauchery and Richard Daintree (photographers), c. 1858, State Library Victoria
Image of a group of warriors with spears, posing on a beach.
Gwoja Tjungurrayi ("One Pound Jimmy"), with spear and woomera, photographed by the Australian National Travel Association in 1935.
Staged photo of a man, seated, wearing feather headdress.
Photo showing a man seated with breastplate and boomerangs, with two women by a bark shelter.
Staged photo of a young man, seated, with boomerangs and skin rug.
Photo of a man, standing full length wearing headdress and fur rug.
mage of a bearded man, seated with loin cloth and some weapons.
Photograph of Patty, or Cooneana (Ringtailed Opossum).
Staged photo of two women, seated full length, with two children by a bark shelter
Photo of young woman, wearing fur headdress and a necklace
Staged photo of two men, wearing European clothe
Photograph of "Nellie", considered at that time the last person of the Nepean community.
Studio portrait of Biddy of Maitland, ca. 1875
Blanket (Aboriginal man), photographed by Morris & Billing London Saloon at 251 Pitt Street, Sydney (ca. 1865-1866).