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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Citations

  • 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.

  • Kelrick Martin (dir.), Lisa MacGregor (prod.) (c.10 April 2007), 'She Sells Seashells’, Australian Broadcasting Commission, [videorecording].

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    http://epress.anu.edu.au/

  • 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.

    http://press.princeton.edu/

  • 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/.

    http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/

  • Nugent, Maria (2005), ''Timbery, Emma (c. 1842 – 1916)’ pp 381-2’, Melbourne University Press, VIC, In 'Australian Dictionary of Biography’, Supplementary Volume.

    http://www.mup.com.au/

Initial data sources

  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW

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Other occupations
  • Informant (ANZSIC code: 6910) (Informant For R. H. Mathews (amateur anthropologist) in late 1890s.)
  • Informant (Informant For R. H. Mathews (amateur anthropologist) in late 1890s.)