Photo by Professor Rosita Henry

Accession Number: 93.01.002

Museum: Material Culture Unit, James Cook University

Date Acquired: 1993

Collector: Frank Palmer Woolston (1911 – 1998)

Date Collected: 1932-1960s

Where from: Djabugay country, near Cairns

Description: Fig tree buttress root, ovate boss, faded colours.

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.

Djabugay people, Cairns area.

See: ‘Frank Woolston’ authored by Trish Barnard

http://www.jcucollections.org/?page_id=808

Contact: Professor Rosita Henry, Head of Social Sciences College of Arts, Society & Education Fellow, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811 AUSTRALIA

Phone: (07) 47814231 or (07) 40421176 International: +61 7 47814231

Email: Rosita.Henry@jcu.edu.au