Photograph by Australian Museum
Accession Number: E013342
Museum: Australian Museum, Sydney
Date Acquired:
Collector: Walter Edmund Roth (1861-1933)
Date Collected:
Where from: Bloomfield River (Wujal Wujal)
Description: Melo shell (baler shell) used as a water carrier. Used by coastal Aboriginal groups from Whitsundays to Cape York. See Roth, W. E. ‘Domestic Implements, Arts and Manufactures’, p. 29, Section 55, Pl. XXIV, Fig. 210.
See: ‘Walter Edmund Roth’ authored by Maureen Fuary
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