Photo by Wayne Beck
Accession Number: QE25665
Museum: Queensland Museum
Date Acquired: 1992
Collector: Frank Palmer Woolston (1911 – 1998)
Date Collected: 1932-1960s
Where from: Cane farm near Innisfail
Description: Stone tool, flat side. This stone tool 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