Item MM 91182 Photograph - Wallaby Hunter, Henry Grave, King Island, 1887

Summary

Henry Grave was a wallaby hunter on King Island during the 1880s. This image was taken by Archibald James Campbell on the Field Naturalists Expedition to King Island in 1887. Grave acted as one of the two guides for the party.

One of thirty-two black and white photographs in an album. The album also includes maps of King Island in the inside front cover and back page and numerous newspaper clippings relating to the expedition. One of the newspaper clippings, written by one of the members of the party, documents the mission of the expedition thus: 'It is our intention, before the introduction of numerous foreign plants and animals rendered it impossible to do so, to ascertain as precisely as we could in the short time at our disposal the fauna and flora indigenous to the island.'

Description of Content

A wallaby hunter and his horse laden with wallaby skins on King Island. Photograph taken by Archibald J. Campbell during a Field Naturalists Club of Victoria scientific expedition to King Island in November 1887.

Physical Description

Black and white photograph mounted on off-white card in bound album.