QE25725 Stone tool

Photo by Wayne Beck

Photo by Wayne Beck

Accession Number: QE25725

Museum: Queensland Museum

Date Acquired: 1992

Collector: Frank Palmer Woolston (1911 – 1998)

Date Collected: 1932-1960s

Where from: Mirriwinni

Description: Stone tool, triangular shape. May possibly be the beginnings of making a Ooyurka (T-shaped stone tool) requiring further work. This stone tool  was originally donated to the Material Culture Unit, James Cook University, and later transferred to the Queensland Museum in 2003.

Frank Palmer Woolston (1911 – 1998) was an avid collector of artefacts made by Aboriginal people and he had a particularly keen interest in their stone tools made by groups from the wet tropics area of north Queensland.

See: ‘Frank Woolston’ authored by Trish Barnard

http://www.jcucollections.org/?page_id=808

Contact: Chantal Knowles, Head of Cultures and Histories, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, QLD 4001 AUSTRALIA

Phone: (07) 3842 9038

Email: Chantal.knowles@qm.qld.gov.au