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  • Condoman, a cartoon figure, holds a packet of condoms on a beach; advertising safe sex among indigenous Australians. Colour lithograph by the Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Australia, and the Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland).
  • Stone knife, Australian Aboriginal.
  • Australian aboriginal stone knife mounted in handle.
  • The Australian aboriginal / by Herbert Basedow ; with 146 illustrations.
  • The Australian aboriginal / by Herbert Basedow ; with 146 illustrations.
  • Australian Aborigine with ceremonial scarrification of the torso and arms
  • Scrotum of an Australian Aborigine who has undergone ceremonial penile subincision
  • Two Australian aborigines performing a ceremony with a magical stick to make another person ill. Halftone.
  • Eucryphia glutinosa (Poepp. & Endlich.) Baill. Eucryphiaceae. Santo sour cherry. Woodland tree. Distribution: Ancient genus from Gondwanaland. Native of Chile, other species being found in eastern coastal Australia. It is now rare in its habitat, since it was much used as a timber tree. Australian aboriginals have used leatherwood (Eucryphia lucida) as an antiseptic and styptic. A recent investigation by the Australian Government Rural Industries and Development Corporation (B R D’Arcy, 2005) finds that leatherwood honey is rich in phenolic acids that possess some antibacterial and anti-oxidant activity. These natural products have been proposed as preservers of freshness in foodstuffs - a possible alternative to the synthetics currently used.
  • An Aboriginal man with a scarification on his shoulder. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • Condoman says : don't be shame be game : use condoms!.
  • Australia: an aboriginal woman with a bone through her nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • A multi-coloured wavy background with two black silhouettes reaching toward each other and an eye in between them; one of a series of [5] Aboriginal posters entitled 'Everybody's Business' concerning 'Caring for People with AIDS' commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services. Colour lithograph by Bronwyn Bancroft, 1992.
  • Two people reach out to touch the tree of life and hope surrounded by dragonflies, frogs, birds and a butterfly representing an Aboriginal depiction of the cycle of life and the role people must play to ensure an AIDS free future. Colour lithograph by Zane Saunders, March 1993.
  • Australia: an aboriginal man (Ned Woolnah?) with a bone through his nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • A central circle with four penis-like extensions surrounded by numerous small circles and flower shapes in each corner; one of a series of Aboriginal posters entitled 'Everybody's Business' concerning 'Education about AIDS' commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health. Colour lithograph by Bronwyn Bancroft, 1992.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • Mr. C. French Anga's New Zealand and Australian exhibition ... : comprising upwards of 300 full-length portraits, from life, of the prinicipal New Zealand Chiefs, with their wives and children.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.
  • No condom : no way! : you can't cure AIDS, you can only be careful.
  • Australia: an Aboriginal woman. Albumen print by Henry King.