• Title
  [Silver breastplate] Presented by His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy K.H., Governor of New South Wales, to Jackey Jackey...
• Call number
  SAFE/R 453
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  ca. 1851
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  446737
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - Silver breastplate, engraved with images of two swans and a fox - 12 x 15.3 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Jackey Jackey was an Aboriginal person from the Merton district near Muswellbrook, New South Wales. He accompanied Edmund Kennedy, Assistant Surveyor, on an expedition to Cape York Peninsula in 1848. Jackey Jackey was with Kennedy when the latter was killed by natives at the Escape River. He then proceeded to Cape York and the waiting supply ship which then brought assistance to the survivors at Shelburne Bay. Reference: 'Stories in Silver' exhibition, State Library of New South Wales, 1996.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Believed to have been made by Brush & MacDonnell, Sydney, from contemporary newspaper reports, ca. 1851.
  
  Reproduced in Australian Silver 1800-1900 / John B. Hawkins. Sydney : National Trust of Australia (N.S.W.), 1973 (ML REF1/A927.37/1A1). It describes the Maker: Brush & MacDonnell, Weight: 5 ozs, Width: 15 cm, Date: circa 1851.
  Digital order no:a928501
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled from inscription
  
  Full inscription reads: "Presented by His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy K.H., Governor of New South Wales, to Jackey Jackey, An Aboriginal Native of that Colony, In testimony of the fidelity with which he followed the late Assistant Surveyor E.B.C. Kennedy, throughout his exploration of York Peninsula in the year 1848; the noble daring with which he supported that lamented Gentleman, when mortally wounded by the Natives of Escape River, the courage with which, after having affectionately tended the last moments of his Master, he made his way through hostile Tribes, and an unknown Country, to Cape York; and finally the unexampled sagacity with which he conducted the succour that there awaited the Expedition to the rescue of the other survivors of it, who had been left at Shelbourne Bay."
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Brush & MacDonnell
  
• Name
  FitzRoy, Charles Augustus, Sir, 1796-1858
  Jackey Jackey, -1854
  Kennedy, Edmund Besley Court, 1818-1848
  
• Subject
  Politics and Government - National symbols and events - King plates
  
• Topic
  Aboriginal peoples (Australians)
  expeditions
  explorers
  kingplates
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Poignant Regalia: 19th century aboriginal breastplates & images - Hyde Park Barracks Museum (26 May - 4 July, 1993)
  Stories in silver - State Library of New South Wales
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - April 2008-March 2009
  Mari Nawi : Aboriginal Odysseys 1790-1850 - State Library of New South Wales (September 2010 - December 2010)
  Learning Services Program display 2014-2015 - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2014 - January, 2015)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3314866

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