This is the first known photograph of a First Nations Australian, or at least one of the very first (if anyone knows of an earlier photo let us know).
Tenberry (Tebury) was described as Chief of the Murray Bend tribe in South Australia and passed away in 1855.
He might have been a Ngaiwong or Nganguraku man.
He was explorer Edward John Eyre’s
“native constable” at Moorunde in the 1840s and was with explorer
Charles Sturt during parts of his expedition into Central Australia in the 1830s.
This photo is pre-1855 and possibly taken in 1847.
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