Photographs taken on Norley Station, including Aboriginal nanny “Lollypop” with white children. Channel Country, Southwest Queensland, 1917.

A$600 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Three gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 110 x 66 mm format; two have annotations by the photographer on the verso, reading: Lollypop, Baby Mary / Norley 1917 , and Maggie cleaning knives; Lollypop children under kitchen verandah / Norley 1917 ; the third is not captioned but shows a large group of Aborigines assembled for a dance performance; all three photographs are in excellent condition. Norley a former locality in the Shire of Bulloo was part of the Channel Country, a network of interconnecting creeks and rivers that are normally dry except during seasonal flooding. The land was used for low density cattle grazing. At the time these snapshots were taken on Norley, it was one of several pastoral properties in the Bulloo district that were owned by Cattle King Sir Sidney Kidman. It had previously been owned by Frederick William Armytage. Lollypop and Maggie are possibly the same women mentioned in a return dated Jan/Feb 1902 of Aboriginal people at nearby Oaiwarra, Hungerford, Bulloo Downs and Dynevor Downs stations, in which Lollypop s traditional name is given as Noothoo, and Maggie s as Bunringaringa (Index to Home Secretary’s Office Correspondence 1896-1903, Queensland State Archives ITM17982 03/1010).

• Binding: Hardcover

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