Photo by Trish Barnard

Accession Number: E013439

Museum: Australian Museum

Date Acquired: 24/03/1905

Collector: Walter Edmund Roth

Date Collected: c.1890

Where from: Atherton

Description: L910 x W375mm

Collected from Atherton in 1898. Red, black and white natural pigments on carved wood.

This design was replicated by contemporary Yidinji artist Michael Boiyool Anning (1955-) and displayed at the Cairns Convention Centre (Barnard 2013). Walter Roth sold his collection of nearly 2000 North Queensland artefacts to the Australian Museum in 1905 for £450 (Barnard 2014).

See: ‘Walter Edmund Roth’ authored by Maureen Fuary

http://www.jcucollections.org/?page_id=71

Contact: Rebecca Fisher, Collections Officer, Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010 AUSTRALIA

Phone: (02) 9320 6089

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Email: Rebecca.fisher@austmus.gov.au