QE25841 Ooyurka

Photo by Wayne Beck

Photo by Wayne Beck

Accession Number: QE25841

Museum: Queensland Museum

Date Acquired: 1992

Collector: Frank Palmer Woolston (1911 – 1998)

Date Collected: 1932-1960s

Where from: North Queensland

Description: Ooyurkas are found only in the rainforests of northeast Queensland. They have a distinctive T-shape and parallel scratches or striations on the top edge. They were used to process rainforest foods. This ooyurka  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