Emma Timbery b. c.1842

Also known as Granny Timbery, Queen Emma Timbery
  • Artist
Celebrated shellworker, Emma Timbery of La Perouse, NSW, exhibited her shellworks in England in 1910.
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Name
Emma Timbery
Also known as:
  • Granny Timbery
  • Queen Emma Timbery
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist
Other Occupation
  • Informant (ANZSIC code: 6910) (Informant For R. H. Mathews (amateur anthropologist) in late 1890s.)
Birth date
c.1842
Birth place
Liverpool, NSW
Death date
26 November 1916
Death place
Sydney, NSW
Burial place
Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Matraville, NSW
Death note
\n\nBurialNote: Buried on 27 November 1916
Active Period
  • 1883
Residence
  • 1842 Liverpool, NSW
  • c.1870-1879 - c.1916 La Perouse, NSW (The specific location of their settlement was then called Cooriwal (also spelt Currewol, Koorewal and Gooriwaal), but is today more commonly known as Frenchman's Beach. )
Indigenous Australian
 
Indigenous Language Groups
  • Dharawal
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW

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References [<ExternalResource: Stephen, Ann (1995), ''Olive Simms and Jane Simms' pp 129-30 and pp 449-50.', G+B Arts International, In 'Heritage: The National Women's Art Book', ed. Joan Kerr.>, <ExternalResource: Kelrick Martin (dir.), Lisa MacGregor (prod.) (c.10 April 2007), 'She Sells Seashells', Australian Broadcasting Commission, [videorecording].>, <ExternalResource: Individual Heritage Group, La Perouse (1988), 'The Place, the People and the Sea', Aboriginal Studies Press, For references to Emma Timbery, see pages 3, 5, 29, 31, 33. For references to shellwork, see pages 13, 24, 31, 39, 43, 49, 52, 80.>, <ExternalResource: Vannil, Ilaria (2000), 'Bridging the gap: The production of tourist objects at La Perouse pp 400-402', Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, VIC, In 'The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture' Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale, eds.>, <ExternalResource: Vanni, Ilaria (2000), 'Timbery Family p715', Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, VIC, In 'The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture' Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale, eds.>, <ExternalResource: Thomas, Martin (ed) (2007), 'Culture in Translation: The Anthropological Legacy of R. H. Mathews', ANU E-Press and Aboriginal History Incorporated, And http://www.aboriginalhistory.org/. Aboriginal History Monograph 15.>, <ExternalResource: Phillips, Ruth B (1995), 'Why not tourist art? Significant silences in Native American museum representations', Princeton University Press, In 'After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements edited by Gyan Prakash.>, <ExternalResource: Phillips, Ruth B (1998), 'Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900, pp 98-125', University of Washington Press and McGill-Queen's University Press, and http://mqup.mcgill.ca/.>, <ExternalResource: Nugent, Maria (2005), ''Timbery, Emma (c. 1842 - 1916)' pp 381-2', Melbourne University Press, VIC, In 'Australian Dictionary of Biography', Supplementary Volume.>, <ExternalResource: Nugent, Maria (2005), 'Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet', Allen & Unwin.>, <ExternalResource: Nugent, Maria, 'Timbery, Emma (c1842-1916)', Australian Dictionary of Biography.>] [<ExternalResource: Stephen, Ann (1995), ''Olive Simms and Jane Simms' pp 129-30 and pp 449-50.', G+B Arts International, In 'Heritage: The National Women's Art Book', ed. Joan Kerr.>, <ExternalResource: Kelrick Martin (dir.), Lisa MacGregor (prod.) (c.10 April 2007), 'She Sells Seashells', Australian Broadcasting Commission, [videorecording].>, <ExternalResource: Individual Heritage Group, La Perouse (1988), 'The Place, the People and the Sea', Aboriginal Studies Press, For references to Emma Timbery, see pages 3, 5, 29, 31, 33. For references to shellwork, see pages 13, 24, 31, 39, 43, 49, 52, 80.>, <ExternalResource: Vannil, Ilaria (2000), 'Bridging the gap: The production of tourist objects at La Perouse pp 400-402', Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, VIC, In 'The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture' Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale, eds.>, <ExternalResource: Vanni, Ilaria (2000), 'Timbery Family p715', Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, VIC, In 'The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture' Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale, eds.>, <ExternalResource: Thomas, Martin (ed) (2007), 'Culture in Translation: The Anthropological Legacy of R. H. Mathews', ANU E-Press and Aboriginal History Incorporated, And http://www.aboriginalhistory.org/. Aboriginal History Monograph 15.>, <ExternalResource: Phillips, Ruth B (1995), 'Why not tourist art? Significant silences in Native American museum representations', Princeton University Press, In 'After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements edited by Gyan Prakash.>, <ExternalResource: Phillips, Ruth B (1998), 'Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700-1900, pp 98-125', University of Washington Press and McGill-Queen's University Press, and http://mqup.mcgill.ca/.>, <ExternalResource: Nugent, Maria (2005), ''Timbery, Emma (c. 1842 - 1916)' pp 381-2', Melbourne University Press, VIC, In 'Australian Dictionary of Biography', Supplementary Volume.>]