• Title
  Photographs of Edmund Milne standing next to Aboriginal Arborglyphs [carved trees], Gamboola near Molong, 1912
• Call number
  SPF/1149
  SPF/1150
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  14 October 1912
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  891475
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  2 photographic prints
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Edmund Milne (1861-1917), railway stationmaster (later deputy chief commissioner for NSW Railways & Tramways) and collector of Aboriginal artefacts also located, documented and photographed Aboriginal carved trees, found at initiation and burial sites. In 1918 Robert Etheridge (director of the Australian Museum, Sydney) published The dendroglyphs or "carved trees" of New South Wales largely based on Milne's sites. The publication was issued by direction of the Hon. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, M.P., Secretary for Mines.
  
  Aboriginal guide Yuranigh (d.1850), belonged to the Molong district, of New South Wales, he accompanied Sir Thomas Mitchell on his expedition to central Queensland, 1845-1846.
  
  References:
  The dendroglyphs or "carved trees" of New South Wales / by R. Etheridge. Sydney : Dept. of Mines, 1918 (Sydney : William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer)
  Edmund Milne's Collection / David Kaus. National Museum. Friends [undated] pp.14-15. http://www.nma.gov.au/ (accessed April 19, 2010)
  Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ (accessed April 20, 2010)
• Scope and Content
  SPF/1149
  Aboriginal Arborglyph, one of four trees carved by the Boree tribe on the death of Yuranigh, 1847 [i.e. 1850] / J.C.L. Fitzpatrick, Esqre. M.P. with compliments, E. Milne 14/10/1912
  1 photograph 14 x 10.8 cm on mount 25 x 20
  [Shows Edmund Milne holding an axe standing next to a carved tree]
  
  SPF/1150
  Aboriginal Arborglyph (carved tree) Yuranighs grave, Gamboola near Molng, 14.10.1912 / J.C.L. Fitzpatrick, Esqre. M.P. with compliments, E. Milne
  1 photograph 10.8 x 14.6 cm on mount 20 x 25
  [Group portrait standing next to a carved tree, Milne holding axe]
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 899497
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Captioned, dated and signed by E. Milne in ink on the mounts
• Name
  Yuranigh, d. 1850
  
• Subject
  Milne, Edmund, 1861-1917--Portraits
  Tree carving--New South Wales
  Sacred sites (Aboriginal Australian)--New South Wales
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Rites and ceremonies
  Wiradjuri (Australian people)--Art
  
• Place
  Gamboola (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Carved trees: Aboriginal cultures of western NSW - State Library of New South Wales (18 April - 26 June, 2011)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE197502

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