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Title
Aboriginal men making stone implements - Port Macquarie area, NSW
Call number
At Work and Play - 04761
Level of description
item
Date

c 1905
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
392800
Scope and Content
Shows Neil Morcom, Charlie Murray and Peter Budge demonstrating the process of sharpening axe heads against a sandstone slab.
Description source

Catalogued using information collected during the New South Wales bicentennial copying of photographs project, 1986.
Caption: Heath, John. Photographing the Birpai. (National Museum of Australia, 2018).
General note

Original item no. BCP 04761
Alphanumeric designations

Digital order no:bcp_04761
Attributions / conjectures

Photographed by: Thomas Dick
Creator/Author/Artist
Dick, Thomas, 1877-1927
Subject
Aboriginal Australians--Photographs.
Photography - Ethnographic
Worimi (Australian people)--Photographs.
Birrbay people E3
Topic
beaches
cliffs
men
stone tools
tool making
Place
Port Macquarie District (N.S.W.)
Port Macquarie (NSW N Coast SH56-14)
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IE1667896

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