Summary
Poster promoting 'National Aborigines' Week' 1987, which depicts varied Indigenous people, roles and contributions to Australian History. Design by Queensland artist Laurie Nilsen, the poster incorporates illustrations of a man wearing a dhari headdress, a stockman, rock paintings, a man working in a cane field, a soldier, and a portrait of Mark Ella, Young Australian of the Year in1982.
Physical Description
Colour ink on paper. Title: 'White Australia Has a Black History'. The design features an outline of the map of Australia on a scroll with various illustrations. Blue and red printed text below the images.
More Information
-
Object/Medium
Poster
-
Maker
-
Date Produced
-
Number of Sheets
1
-
Number of Pages
1
-
Overall Dimensions
445 mm (Width), 630 mm (Height)
-
Organisation Named
National Aborigines' and Islanders' Day Observance Committee
Issued by National Aborigines Day Observance Committee (NADOC). Note: NADOC changed its name in 1985 to the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC). -
Keywords
-
Type of item
-
Discipline
-
Category
-
Collecting Areas
Ethnohistory, Australian Indigenous Identity and Contemporary Life
Title
White Australia Has a Black History