Photo by Wayne Beck

Photo by Wayne Beck

Accession Number: QE25744

Museum: Queensland Museum

Date Acquired: 1992

Collector: Frank Palmer Woolston (1911 – 1998)

Date Collected: 1932-1960s

Where from: near Innisfail

Description: Stone implement with hole through the centre. 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.