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Title
Two Aboriginal men removing bark from mangrove tree for shield. Two boys in background spearing fish from canoe - Port Macquarie area, NSW
Call number
At Work and Play - 04780
Level of description
item
Date

c 1905
Type of material
Graphic Materials, Photographs
Reference code
392819
Scope and Content
Shows Peter Budge and Charlie Murray demonstrating how to make a heliman (a sheild) at a mangrove. Billy Bugg and Grace Bugg are fishing in the background.
Description source

Catalogued using information collected during the New South Wales bicentennial copying of photographs project, 1986.
Caption: Heath, John. Birrpai : Beyond the lens of Thomas Dick (Port Macquarie Historical Society, 2018).
General note

Original item no. BCP 04780
Alphanumeric designations

Digital order no:bcp_04780
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
bark stripping
boomerangs
boys
canoes
fishing (pastime)
men
shields (weapons)
spears
stone tools
Place
Port Macquarie District (N.S.W.)
Port Macquarie (NSW N Coast SH56-14)
Open Rosetta viewer
IE1720225

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