Sketcher, drew fifteen ink and watercolour sketches of Aborigines of the Fowler’s Bay and Penong regions of South Australia in the 1870s (NLA LOC 1857). Though very poorly drawn, they prove that Aborigines were much in evidence in the region, working for and with the European settlers. They include a comical image of 'Pompey’, before and after dinner, and a caricature of 'Cocandandros black, Fowler’s Bay, S.A.’ 1871, watercolour, but most clearly had no comic intentions, e.g. 'Native Shepherd, Fowlers Bay, S.A.’ 1870, ink; 'Wild and tame, uncivilised and civilised, Fowlers Bay, S.A.’ 1871, ink; an Aboriginal woman dressed in European clothes with European hairstyle carrying a tray with coffee pot and two cups and saucers, sketched at Penong woolshed in 1873 (one of two showing this woman servant); and another unusual drawing of a settler and Aboriginal family round a fire in South Australia with Fowlers Bay in the background, 1873, watercolour.

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1996

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2007