William Henry Gill (ethnographer)
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William Henry Gill (1861–1944) was an Australian ethnographer, collector of Aboriginal artefacts, and art dealer.
Gill was prolific in recording information about Australian Aboriginal culture and artefacts in Tasmania and mainland Australia. His papers were compiled by the Mitchell Library and constitute an important early ethnographic record.[1]
He was particularly concerned with the customs of Aboriginal people of the Dieri, Wonkonguru and Yaurorka tribes of the Lake Eyre region of South Australia and corresponded with George Aiston, a police officer stationed to the north and east of Lake Eyre, Central Australia.[2] He also corresponded with C. L. Willes about early Tasmanian records and Tasmanian aborigines and with Daisy Bates.[1]
