Accession[1988.0061] PAPERS OF FRANCES DERHAMIdentifierUMA-ITE-1988006101064Scope and ContentIncludes letter from Barbara Bills to Frances Derham 3 August, describing her aspirations to purchase water colours to see what art Aboriginal children could produce, referencing child Nganyintjanya; includes letter from Barbara Bills to Frances Derham 17 May 1947, describing Aboriginal child art at Ernabella mission as "purely primitive"; includes two copies of articles from The Evening Australian 7 September 1948, 'Wandana Passengers talk of Aborigines and tourists' describing the various talents of Aboriginal Australians, especially as artists according to Mrs Derham, and 'Last of the Aborigine quartette arrested' describing the arrest of Aboriginal men Alick Murgha, Ralph Graham, Allan Gibson and Archie Fraser; includes the Victorian Aboriginal Group Seventeenth Annual Report 1946, lists Mr A. McInnes as President. Includes one photo of three Torres Strait Islander men on a fishing boat at Thursday Island, with written note 23 July 1948 to Richard, describing these men as "the same colour as the Aboriginals but [with] curly hair"; includes the following 29 samples of child art in pencil (some in colour) on small index cards sent to Frances Derham: vehicles, kangaroos, men riding horses, emu chased by a dog by Sebald, emus running, stockman on horse, kangaroos, man with a saw, insects, plane flying over landscape and emu, men walking under the Australian flag, man holding a pile of sticks by Milton (age 12), men standing on a fence as a plane flies overhead by Lottie, men walking below a flag by Lottie, kangaroos being chased by dogs, man shooting guns, beetle on a leaf by Sebald, goanna by Claude, landscape scenes, men cutting a tree. KEYWORDS: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Indigenous, The Evening Australian, Victorian Aboriginal Group, art, artists, child, drawing, photo, report, arrest, mission.Access StatusOpen for public accessAccess ConditionsAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this item may contain images or names of deceased persons in photographs or printed material.
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