Oceania Collection (page 6)

Sheep shearing, 1879. Artist: McFarlane and Erskine
Sheep shearing, 1879. A print from The History of Australasia, by David Blair, McGrady, Thomson, and Niven, 1879

Quartz crushing mill, Australia, 1879. Artist: McFarlane and Erskine
Quartz crushing mill, Australia, 1879. A print from The History of Australasia, by David Blair, McGrady, Thomson, and Niven, 1879

Gold escort attacked by bushrangers, Australia, 1879. Artist: McFarlane and Erskine
Gold escort attacked by bushrangers, Australia, 1879. A print from The History of Australasia, by David Blair, McGrady, Thomson, and Niven, 1879

Aborigines of Australia, 1879. Artist: McFarlane and Erskine
Aborigines of Australia, 1879. A print from The History of Australasia, by David Blair, McGrady, Thomson, and Niven, 1879

Medicine man, Australia, 1922. Artist: Spencer and Gillen
Medicine man, Australia, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Three Aborigines from the coast tribes above Brisbane, Australia, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Speared manatee, north-west Australia, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Men of the Never Never land, in totem attire, Australia, 1922. Artist: PJ MacMahon
Men of the Never Never land, in totem attire, Australia, 1922. The tufted sticks rising from the heads of the men in the second row are in the nature of nurtunjas, or totem poles

An emu man performing the sacred totem of his group, Australia, 1922. Artist: Spencer and Gillen
An emu man performing the sacred totem of his group, Australia, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

The Australian-touring English cricket team of 1911-1912. Artist: CA Petts
The Australian-touring English cricket team of 1911-1912. From Imperial Cricket, edited by P F Warner and published by The London and Counties Press Association Ltd (London, 1912)

The first English cricket team to visit Australia, 1861-1862 (1912). From Imperial Cricket, edited by P F Warner and published by The London and Counties Press Association Ltd (London, 1912)

The arrival of the first English cricket team in Australia, 1861 (1912)
The arrival of the first English cricket team in Australia, 24 December 1861 (1912). From Imperial Cricket, edited by P F Warner and published by The London and Counties Press Association Ltd

A man from the Warramunga tribe making a stone axe head, Australia, 1922. Artist: Spencer and Gillen
A man from the Warramunga tribe making a stone axe head, Australia, 1922. The man is chipping a block of diorite by means of a small lump of hard quartzite

Tahiti. Papeete, c1920. Papeete is the capital of French Polynesia

The city of Melbourne, Australia, 1855. An engraving from The Illustrated London News, 24th November 1855

Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia, 1855. Artist: J Pass
Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia, 1855. An engraving from The Illustrated London News, 24th November 1855

The treasury and government printing office, Melbourne, Australia, 1863. Artist: T Macquord
The treasury and government printing office, Melbourne, Australia, 1863. An engraving from The Illustrated London News, 1st August 1863

Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, 19th century. Artist: William Hatherell
Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, 19th century

En Route for the Gold Fields, Australia, 1887. Artist: William Hatherell
En Route for the Gold Fields, Australia, 1887

King Street, Sydney, Australia, c1900s. As seen from Pitt Street

Spring Street, Melbourne, Australia, 1912

Looking west along Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia, 1912. Published by V.S.M. (Melbourne)

George Street, Sydney, Australia, c1900s. Published by Valentine & Sons

The Town Hall (new extension), Melbourne, Australia, 1912

Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Australia, 1912

Sydney Heads from the south, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Artist: Frederic B Schell
Sydney Heads from the south, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Sydney Heads, also known as The Heads, is the entrance to Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour)

Govetts Leap, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Artist: Frederic B Schell
Govetts Leap, Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Wood engraving from Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol I, by Andrew Garran, illustrated under the supervision of Frederic B Schell

The Endeavour on the reef, Australia, 1770 (1886). The Endeavour, commanded by Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef on 10 June 1770

Natives opposing Captain Cooks landing, Australia, 1770 (1886). Artist: W Macleod
Natives opposing Captain Cooks landing, Australia, 1770 (1886). Wood engraving from Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol I, by Andrew Garran, illustrated under the supervision of Frederic B Schell

Tasmans Carpenter Landing, 1644 (1886). Dutch explorer Abel Tasman mapped the north coast of Australia in 1644. He is best known for his discovery of Tasmania two years previously

The Duyfken in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, 1606 (1886). Artist: W Mollier
The Duyfken in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, 1606 (1886). The ship commanded by the Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon, who in 1606 became the first European known to have seen Australia

Torres sighting Cape York, 1606, (1886). Artist: Julian Ashton
Luis Vaez de Torres sighting Cape York, 1606, (1886). Cape York Peninsula in Queensland is the northernmost extremity of Australia

Pearl Fishery, Torres Strait, Australia, 1886. Wood engraving from Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol II, by Andrew Garran, illustrated under the supervision of Frederic B Schell

Hauling timber, Australia, 1877

Mission, Ureparapara, Torba Province, Vanuatu, 1885

Pago Pago Harbor, in the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, 1889. Coal hanger in the distance, and Pioa Mountain

Tamasese distributing arms, Apia, Samoa, 1899. Samoan Civil War 1898-1899. A view showing Tamasese sitting on the ground, with rifles in front of him, and people sitting around

Coral figure from the Torres Straits Islands, which was put near the fire when the occupeants left the hut to prevent the fire going out. From the British Museums collection

Figure of copulating man and woman from the Torres Straits islands off of the south coast of New Guinea, which was used in love magic, from the British Museums collection

Coconut-fibre mask from the Torres Straits islands
Coconut-fibre mask, with eyes of coiled wire. From the Torres Straits islands, from the British Museums collection

Australian natives preparing meal from an animal they have hunted, c1895. The man on the left makes a fire by the blister method

Australian aborigines butchering a kangaroo, 1885-1888. A family of New South Wales natives butchering the spoils of their hunting expedition, preparatory to cooking

Wooden figure from New Ireland, Melanesia. British Museum

Aboriginal bark painting. Bark painting is an Australian Aboriginal art form, involving painting on the interior of a strip of tree bark

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