First Fleet artwork collection

Half-length portrait of an Aboriginal man against a plain background, the figure underlined in black ink. The man's torso is facing forwards and his head is turned in profile to the right. A barbed spear crosses his body to the left. The man's jaw-length hair is decorated with hanging ornaments of tooth and bone. His skin is dark brown with black marks on his chest and upper arms representing cicatrices, and his upper arms and chest are decorated with a white linear pattern. The drawing is annotated in brown ink.