As part of a recent project with Education Services Australia (ESA), the Museum has worked on a series of 34 photographs of Indigenous people and places by Herbert Basedow, a doctor, anthropologist and explorer who travelled extensively to central and northern Australia between 1903 and 1928. For each photograph, we have described the content in detail, and provided some context and interpretation.
We hope it will be useful for teaching and learning history under the new curriculum. On that, do let us know.
Perhaps the most exciting part of this project is that these 34 photographs and our annotations have been released under a Creative Commons license that gives you freedom to reuse the images for any non-commercial purpose, as long as you attribute both the Museum and ESA as the source, and share whatever you produce under the same conditions. To download a large-format record, see the link in the left-hand column on each page (eg here’s the page for the above photo).
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