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David Unaipon, 1925

Format: Gelatin silver photographic print

 

Notes: David Unaipon (1872-1967) was the first Australian Aboriginal writer to have a book published in Australia. Hungarrda was published in 1927 followed by Kinnie Ger - the Native Cat in 1928 and his main work, Native Legends, in 1929. A collection of his legends was published, without acknowlegement, by W. Ramsay Smith as Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals in 1930.

 

Portrait of David Unaipon, from Volume 1: Manuscript of 'Legendary Tales of Australian Aborigines' by David Unaipon, 1924-1925, acquired with the Publishing Archive of Angus & Robertson in 1933, State Library of New South Wales, A 1929 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/digital/0dd23RZNaXAk5

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Uploaded on September 19, 2008
Taken sometime in 1925