Alfred Atkinson

  • Artist (Photographer)
Queensland photographer whose work depicts the Aboriginal communities of the Palmer district. Examples of his work are held by the Cairns Historical Society and the Institute of Aboriginal Studies in Canberra.
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photographer, of Atkinson and Hyland, Qld. Copies of prints from glass plate negatives taken by Atkinson from c.1895 to 1915 in the Cairns Historical Society show Aborigines of the Palmer district, e.g. Ready for the Cockatoo Dance inscribed 'Yabba before Corroboree’, and Rainforest Aborigines inscribed 'In the Scrub’ (other copies are in the Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra).

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Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011

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Related works
  • Rainforest Aborigines (creator of)
  • Ready for the Cockatoo Dance (creator of)
Related collections
  • Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Cairns Historical Society, Cairns, Qld. (collected in)