Accession Number: X983

Museum: Museum Victoria

Date Acquired:

Collector: John Gaggin

Date Collected:

Where from: Herbert River

Description:

See: ‘ From Flame to Fame: Transformation of firesticks to art in North Queensland’ by Professor Rosita Henry.

Contact: Dr Lindy Allen, Senior Curator, Anthropology (Northern Australia), Museums Victoria/Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, VIC 3053 AUSTRALIA

Email: lallen@museum.vic.gov.au

Link to the Victoria Museum photo of the firemaker that John Gaggin collected, a description and photo of which A.W Howitt included in his book ‘Native Tribes of South-East Australia’ (1904).