Record#
Date:
1866
Named Person:
Truganini (Truganina, Trugernanner, Lalla Rookh);
Photographer:
Charles Alfred Woolley
Expedition/Compiler:
Image Caption:
Source:
Alexander Morton
Acquired:
Donated July 1891
Collection:
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Region:
Tasmania; Bruni Island
Cultural Group:
Description:
Head and shoulders profile portrait of Lalla Rookh or Truganina, a Tasmanian woman aged 65, wearing European clothing and a necklace of iridescent shells. Plain studio background. [LM 5/5/2009]
Primary Documentation:
Written on mount - TASMANIA P.R.Mus. ... b Truganini, BRUNI ID tribe. The last aboriginal of TASMANIA: died in 1876 at HOBART. Skull & skeleton in Tasmanian Musm. (1c) ... (?dd) - Morton PRM B44/12.a-c [LM 5/5/2009]
Written on back of mount - Photographs by C.A. Woolley 1866 see Bonwick, J. The Last of the Tasmanians facing pp 281, 399 and The Daily Life of the Tasmanians facing p 209 [LM 5/5/2009]
Written on back of print - Lalla Rookh or Truganini aged 65. The last aboriginal of Tasmania died 1876 at Hobart. Skull & skel in the Tasmanian Museum. 1c. Bruni Isld tribe Tasmania [LM 5/5/2009]
Handlist for box - Tasmania. [1 of] 12 prints of Tasmanian aborigines by . A. Woolley (1834-1922) taken 1866. Published as photo-engravings, Bonwick 1) and 2). The complete set of Woolley's photographs numbers 15, P.R.M. has 12, (Bessie Clarke is absent). 12a-c - Truganini (f.p.f.) - See Bonwick 1) p. 399, 2) p209. [LM 5/5/2009]
Written on back of mount - Photographs by C.A. Woolley 1866 see Bonwick, J. The Last of the Tasmanians facing pp 281, 399 and The Daily Life of the Tasmanians facing p 209 [LM 5/5/2009]
Written on back of print - Lalla Rookh or Truganini aged 65. The last aboriginal of Tasmania died 1876 at Hobart. Skull & skel in the Tasmanian Museum. 1c. Bruni Isld tribe Tasmania [LM 5/5/2009]
Handlist for box - Tasmania. [1 of] 12 prints of Tasmanian aborigines by . A. Woolley (1834-1922) taken 1866. Published as photo-engravings, Bonwick 1) and 2). The complete set of Woolley's photographs numbers 15, P.R.M. has 12, (Bessie Clarke is absent). 12a-c - Truganini (f.p.f.) - See Bonwick 1) p. 399, 2) p209. [LM 5/5/2009]
Accession Book I 87 Entry - 29 July Alex Morton Esq Curator Tasmanian Museum, Hobart - 12 photographs of Tasmanian aborigines from life
Added Accession Book Entry - there is a capital 'A' by the side of the above entry - reason unknown [AP 21/3/2000]
Research Notes: