..CAPNO Bennett.S2.BW

..DEPOSITR Scott Bennett

..CAPTION LIST covers N4254 NB: Prints from the book "The Queen's

Empire", published by Cassell and Co Ltd., London, Paris and

Melbourne, 1897

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER N4254.04-05

..DATE c1890's

..PLACE Brisbane, Qld

..SUBJECT Lord Lamington, Governor of Queensland

..DSCRPTN Reception of the Governor of Queensland. "The Anglo-

Saxon race has laid so firm a grasp upon the great island of

Australia that we are too prone to forget that the native

Australian still exists in the country of his birth. The strange

scene depicted above furnishes us with an unanswerable proof of

the fact that he still exists, and in his mild way prospers under

the bustling rule of the white invaders. Here we see the Governor

welcomed to the Colony, and in the procession which accompanies

his Excellency is a group of Aboriginal Australians, forming a

quaint contrast with the trim, civilised aspect of the troopers

of the Guard, and with the gaily-dressed crowd who have assembled

to welcome the representative of the Queen." p 18. Photo: A Lomer

and Co, Brisbane

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER N4254.06

..DATE c1890's

..DSCRPTN Australian Aboriginals spearing fish. "That the heroes

in our picture must have made some advance in the art of posing

to the photographer when their exploits were thus registered on

the camera, can hardly be doubted; but that the pose was only a

momentary interlude in what is a bona fide Australian form of

sport is equally certain. The spear on which the fish are

transfixed in the clear water receives its impetus from the short

stick known as a 'womerah", which is clasped in the right hand,

and which is capable of imparting great force to the missile. One

of the natives, it will be seen, carries in his hand the heavy

boomerang, which, though it does not, perhaps, perform all the

feats with which tradition credits it, is nevertheless an

effective weapon in the hand of a skilful thrower." p 103 Photo:

Cassell and Co

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER N4254.07-08

..DATE c1890's

..DSCRPTN an Australian corroboree. "The Australian Aboriginal

natives are nowadays but a feeble folk in the land of their

birth. At no period can their numbers have been very great, and

they are now undoubtedly diminishing. Here, however, we see a

group of this stranage people assembled for the performance of

the elaborate ceremony known as the "corroboree". It would be an

error to call the performance a dance: it may be more correctly

described as a dramatic performance in which gesture and

carefully drilled movements are combined. The corroboree is a

solomn function not to be undertaken by the inexperienced; and

native children from their earliest years are taught the

necessary movements, and elaborate rules of the game. On the

right of the picture is to be seen a native holding two of those

remarkable missiles known as the "boomerang"." p181. Photo: H

King, Sydney

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