Bowen Bungaree b. c.1804

Also known as Boin, Bowen Toura, Black Bowen
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Bowen Bungaree is attributed as the first documented Aboriginal artist with the sketch Representation of a woman by a native of NSW, 1823. Bowan Bungaree is the son of Bungaree who sailed with Matthew Flinders aboard the sloop, Norfolk in 1799 and wife Mataura
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Citations

  • 'Smith, Keith Vincent’.

  • 'Birth Notices’, Registrar General, Sydney, NSW, 'Aboriginal – Theela – Father Bowen – Mother Maria.’ Births, V18301399 128/1830, 'Aboriginal Mark – Father Bowen Bungaree – Mother Maria.’ Births, 125/1832-.

  • Jennings, Guy (1991), 'My Holiday and other early travels from Manly to Palm Beach 1861’, Newport Beach: Aramo Pty. Ltd., Guy Jennings was compiler of above publication (Sydney Mail quotation pg 53-41861 quotation) De Boos in Jennings (op.cit) 1991:55.

  • Smith, Keith Vincent (1992), 'King Bungaree’, Kangaroo Press, 'Skirmish over a hat’ 1992:31-34.

  • Oxley, John (1823), 'Port Jackson to Port Curtis, October-November 1823’, Field Book 202, MS C257, Mitchell Library.

  • Threlkeld, L E Reverend (1834), 'An Australian Grammer’, An Australian Grammer. “of the language, as spoken by the Aborigines, in the vicinity of Hunter’s River, Lake Macquarie, &c. New south Wales.” Sydney 1834:86.

  • King, Philip Gidley (1790), 'A very correct Vocabulary’, Journal, 9 April 1790:399.40. MS C115, Mitchell Library. Reproduced in Eora: A Sydney Vocabulary, State Library of NSW, 2006.

Initial data sources

  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW

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