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Paul Foelsche Collection

Also known as: Paul Foelsche
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Brief description

More than 300 Aboriginal artefacts collected from the Top End of the Northern Territory during the late 19th century by Paul Foelsche (284 registered artefacts in S.A. Museum collection).

Full description

Paul Foelsche (1831-1914) was appointed Sub-Inspector of Police in the Northern Territory in late 1869, taking up his position in early 1870. He was a pioneer photographer of Northern Territory landscapes, the town of Palmerston (later Darwin) and made a remarkable series of group and individual portraits of Larrakia, Woolna (Djerimanga), Iwaidja and other Aboriginal groups of the Top End. From the mid-1870s he began collecting ethnographic material, supplying International Exhibitions and the South Australian Museum, with well-documented artefacts.

Notes

Further information may be found in specimen documentation files, in the S.A. Museum website (see below) and in the publication; Paul Foelsche 1881, Notes on the Aborigines of North Australia, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia; Philip Jones 2005 The Policeman's Eye. The frontier photography of Paul Foelsche. Exhibition booklet, South Australian Museum, Adelaide; R. J. Noye, 'Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias (1831 - 1914)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 192-193. A number of Foelsche's ethnographic objects, including ceremonial head-gear and ethnobotanical specimens, are displayed in the Australian Aboriginal Cultures Gallery, S.A. Museum. Online note: 'The Policeman's Eye: Paul Foelsche's Frontier Photography website Related collections: Associated archival component (specimen lists, glass negatives, albumen photographic prints, correspondence) held in the SAM Archives collections (esp. AA96; AA298); additional correspondence with John Lewis in PRG 247, State Library of S.A.; natural history specimens in S.A. Museum; botanical specimens in Melbourne Herbarium

Significance

Foelsche's ethnographic collection is accompanied by his original lists, giving language terms for objects, uses, and group affiliation.

Data time period: 1877 to 1899

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text: Port Darwin

text: Cobourg Peninsula

text: Darwin

text: Northern Territory

text: Katherine River

text: MacArthur River

text: Palmerston

text: Port Essington

text: Port Keats

text: Daly Waters

text: Pine Creek

text: Powell's Creek

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Aboriginal artefacts | Aboriginal culture | Aboriginal languages | Aboriginal peoples | Aboriginal peoples (Australians) | Aboriginal portraiture | Anthropological specimens | Artefacts | Australian Aboriginal material culture | Bags | Baskets | Basketwork | Boomerangs | Botanical specimens | Ceremonial objects | Ceremonies | Containers | Edged Weapons | Indigenous medicine | Iwaidja | Larrakia | Paul Foelsche | Paul Heinrich Matthias Foelsche | Personal adornments | Photography | Portrait photographs | Portrait photography | Projectile weapons | Vocabularies | Woolnah (Djerimanga) | armbands | axes | belts | ceremonial headgear | clubs | cordage | didgeridoo | didjeridus | early N.T. Photography | ethno-botanical specimens | feather plumes | fire-making implements | headbands | knives | late 19th century | medical charms | message-sticks | musical instruments | natural history | necklaces | nose-pegs | ochres | portraits | sorcery | sorcery objects | spear-throwers | spears | tools | weapons |

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