Photograph by Australian Museum
Accession Number: E013318
Museum: Australian Museum, Sydney
Date Acquired: 1905
Collector: Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933)
Date Collected: 1898
Where from: Bloomfield
Description: H360 x W270 x D229mm. Water carrier made from the gnarled outgrowth of a bark knot. Eucalyptus sp., with an old rag bound around a wooden plug in a hole at base [ref K. Pope, 1967, p.32], and inner surface charred and scraped smooth. Condition: Wood badly chipped
along edges, evidence of cracking. (Information from Roth Bull.7, p.29)
See: ‘Walter Edmund Roth’ authored by Maureen Fuary
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