A historical ethnography of photographs as a colonial tool and as reappropriated by the indigenous population from the 1860s through the 1920s and in the present.

List of Illustrations ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction: Colonialism, Photography, Mimesis 1
1. "This Civilising Experiment": Charles Walter, Missionaries, and Photographic Theater 33
2. Science and Visuality: "Communicating Correct Ideas" 73
3. Time Traps: Defining Aboriginality during the 1870s–1880s 122
4. Works Like a Clock 176
5. Coranderrk Reappears 214
Epilogue 248
Notes 253
Bibliography 271
Index 295