A group of 11 Aboriginal men and a young boy photographed in front of a wooden hut

Description: 

The information below is taken from the report: List of J.W. Lindt photographs in the D’Albertis Museo, Genoa, Italy, prepared by Ken Orchard, (J.W. Lindt scholar), South Australia.
Date: 7 June, 2021.

J. W. Lindt 1873 LM_f7

A group of 11 Aboriginal men and a young boy photographed in

front of a wooden hut.

The group includes "King"Harry Neville, seated in centre, second

from left, holding a plondie. Other figures in this photo appear in

other cdvs (No.1, No.3) that feature in the d’Albertis set of

photographs.

Albumen silver photograph mounted on card. Not inscribed.

Collection Castello d’Albertis Museo, Genoa, Italy.

The location of this photograph is unknown but could have been taken at Swan Creek, near Ulmarra, the known ‘home location’ for “King” Harry of Swan Creek, or perhaps it could have been taken at “Dallinga”, South Grafton, home of the Wilcox family. Wilcox is known to have had a close connection to members of the Aboriginal community dating back to the 1860s, and his property was significantly closer to the ferry crossing from Grafton to South Grafton, than to Swan Creek, further downstream towards Ulmarra. The Wilcox family employed an Aboriginal female maid-servant, named Ellen, but her visual identity is unknown. This photograph may associate closely with the photograph of the Giant Fig Tree, taken on Wilcox’s property. It is also significant that five of the figures in this photograph appear in Lindt’s anthropometric-styled photographs (Nos. 1, 3 in this list), and their cooperation to be photographed here may in fact precede their later studio sittings for Lindt’s ‘commission’ from D’Albertis.

People: 
Harry Neville
Location: 
Location Description: 

Clarence River, NSW