Photo by Wayne Beck
Accession Number: QE25729
Museum: Queensland Museum
Date Acquired: 1992
Collector: Frank Palmer Woolston (1911 – 1998)
Date Collected: 1932-1960s
Where from: East Russell River
Description: Stone axe, ground edge, slight evidence of hafting groove. With inscription by Woolston ‘I PICKED THIS UP ON THE EDGE OF CULTIVATION EAST RUSSEL[sic]’. This axe head 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