King Plates: A History of Aboriginal GorgetsA comprehensive history of gorgets(crescent-shaped badges worn around the neck indicating military rank) that were presented by white colonialists to Aboriginal 'chiefs' and others who helped to ease the white people's progress in the new land. Highly illustrated pictures of the gorgets from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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Silver gorget c1851 presented by Governor Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy to Jackey Jackey who travelled with Edmund Kennedy | 11 |
William Fernyhough Piper the native who accompanied Major Mitchell in his expedition to the interior 31 33 13 Coomee Nulunga Last of the Murra... | 12 |
JW Lindt Entrance to Yulgilbar Castle showing former King of territory Bobby sitting in corner on left hand side and recent king on horseback Edw... | 14 |
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A-ON Aboriginal communities Aboriginal gorgets Aboriginal King Aboriginal person Adelaide Observer artefacts Bathurst Bathurst district Big River Billy Hippie Biraban Bobby boomerang brass gorget brass plate Budd Billy Bungaree chain Chief Clarence River collection number colonial colonists Coomee Coomee's coronet Creek Dawson decoration district Edmund O Milne emu and kangaroo engraved Gongolgon gorgets held Historical Society inscribed inscription Jackey Jackey Jemmy Jimmie Barker King Billy King Bungaree King John Cry King Plates known lettering and design Library of Australia Lumholtz McCarthy Melbourne Merigal Mickey Johnson mid-nineteenth century military gorgets Milne Collection file Murramarang Muruwari Museum of Australia Museum's collection National Library National Museum natives Nelligen nineteenth century NLA:pictures non-Aboriginal Ogilvie pastoral pastoralists presented private collection Queen Queensland Richmond River sawn brass South Wales spear Station style of lettering suggests Sydney Threlkeld Tommy Tribe Wallaga Lake wearing a gorget Wellington Wiradjuri worn xanthorrhoea Yulgilbar