Yertebrida Solomon

Also known as Yertabrida
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Yertabrida Solomon remains the only identified woman artist of Aboriginal descent to make drawings in Australia in the nineteenth century.

Citations

  • Taplin, George (ed.) (1879), 'Folklore … of the South Australian Aborigines’, Adelaide, “List of the names of the natives belonging to the Narrinyeri Tribe’, SAA GRG 1876/72, and 'Journal’ 10 September 1867 (vol.2), SAA PRG 186 1/3.

  • Hemming, S., Jones, P.,& Clarke, P. (1989), 'Ngurunderi: An Aboriginal Dreaming’, South Australian Museum catalogue, Adelaide (for the clan organisation and Ngarrindjeri culture in general).

  • Sayers, Andrew (1994), 'Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century’, Melbourne.

  • Worsnop, Thomas (1897), 'The Prehistoric Arts, Manufactures, Works, Weapons, etc., of the Aborigines of Australia’, Adelaide 1897.

See also

  • 'Native Encampment, illustrated in Taplin's Folklore'.
  • 'Hunting Party after Game 1876, photolithograph, plate 17 in Thomas Worsnop, The Prehistoric Arts, Manufactures, Works, Weapons, etc., of the Aborigines of Australia (Adelaide 1897)'.
  • 'Heritage, chapter 8, plate 326'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book