William Monop b. c.1843

Also known as Manop, Monap
  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Born c. 1843 of Giragiok 'family', and Ballarruk section, Monop resided for some years at the New Norcia Mission, WA; and, later in life, in the Aboriginal community at Port Welshpool in Perth. Crayon drawings by Williap Monop (Manop or Monap) are preserved in a sketchbook in the papers of Daisy Bates at the National Library of Australia.

Citations

  • Bates, Daisy, 'Bates papers’, Battye Library, WA, Colonial Secretary files relating to Bates’ employment 1904-1911, CSO 1023/84, PRO, Perth, WA.

  • Bates, Daisy (ed) White, Isabel (1985), 'The Native Tribes of Western Australia (1985)’.

  • Bates, Daisy (25 December 1907), 'A Southern Corroboree: Doordaaroo Ke-ning’, Western Mail (Perth), Christmas supplement, p.63.

  • Bates, Daisy, 'Notebook 17, Bates papers, MS 365, 73/34-35; see also 42/218-257,267, 73/249-258, 82/211-229’, plus many scattered references to Victoria Plains (for which Monop was her sole informant).

  • (25 November 1866), 'Marriage record No.23’, And report in Perth Inquirer 7 December 1866.

  • (8 September 1864), 'Census of male Aborigines at New Norcia’.

  • 'Monop sketchbook, Port Welshpool’ (March 1907), Daisy Bates papers, MS 365 [folder] 30/ [item] 96, National Library of Australia.

  • Eagle, Mary (2005), 'A History of Australian Art 1830-1930, told through the lives of the objects’, Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the Australian National University, 2005, chapter 7.

Initial data sources

  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW