Photo by Trish Barnard

Accession Number: E050138

Museum: Australian Museum

Date Acquired: 29/05/1942

Collector: John Archibald Boyd (1846-1926)

Date Collected: c.1885

Where from: North Queensland

Description: L1245 x W400mm

Carved figwood with natural pigments. Collected by John Archibald Boyd (1846-1926) who collected specimens for the Australian Museum and William Macleay. He lived in Fiji 1865-82 and then on a sugar plantation at Ingham, Queensland.

See: ‘John Archibald Boyd’ authored by Dr Rosita Henry

http://www.jcucollections.org/?page_id=143

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

Phone: (02) 9320 6089

International: +612 9320 6089

Email: Rebecca.fisher@austmus.gov.au