Australian aborigines from the Blue Mountains. Men from the banks of the Nepean river at top, Aurang Jack, chief of Spring-Wood in the middle and his two wives. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige Völkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German writer, bookseller and publisher in Meissen. Illustration copied from de Freycinet's "Voyage of the Uranie," 1828.

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Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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