drawing
- Museum number
- Oc2006,Drg.6
- Title
- Object: Cranky Dick V.D.L.
- Description
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Drawing; it depicts 'Cranky Dick' (Roonathadauna), a bearded Tasmanian Aboriginal man, standing with both hands together. He is wearing a long sleeve shirt, trousers and a button-down waist coat. 1845.
Graphite and watercolour
- Production date
- 1845
- Dimensions
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Height: 21.50 centimetres
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Width: 16.20 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
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According to Robert Clark, the catechist at Flinders Island, Cranky Dick's Aboriginal name was 'Roonathadauna' meaning forehead. See BM Pic Doc 171.
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It is one of a series of twenty one portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people completed by Prout during a visit to the Wybalenna Aboriginal Station on Flinders Island in February and March 1845.
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'Kranky Dick of weak intellect, born near Ben Lomond - attached himself to the white men when they came to his neigbourhood - was brought by Mr Robinson to Launceston, and accompanied him during his excursions in the bush.' From notes given to Prout in 1845 by Robert Clark, Catechist at Wybalenna, Flinders Island (contained in Ethdoc 915).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Window mounted, in good condition.
- Acquisition notes
- In 1856 the artist John Skinner Prout sold Joseph Barnard Davis a collection of 36 of his portraits of Australian Aborigines and Maori people. After Davis's death in 1881, these portraits, along with other pictorial and ethnographic material, were acquired by the British Museum.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc2006,Drg.6
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc2006-Drg6-Pro
