Photo by Trish Barnard

Accession Number: E013442

Museum: Australian Museum

Date Acquired: 24/03/1905

Collector: Walter Edmund Roth

Date Collected: 1900

Where from: Tinaroo Creek

Description: L1090 x W420mm

Collected from Tinaroo Creek in 1900, but this location was not found in the Gazetteer or Atlas according to Jack R Logan in 1900, but may be in the vicinity of Herberton. Northmost Australia,Vol2 Tinaroo is on lower reaches of Tinaroo Creek on Johnstones map. Red, yellow, black and white natural pigments. Tinaroo Creek is near Mareeba on the Atherton Tablelands.

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