Photo by Trish Barnard
Accession Number: QE25875
Museum: Queensland Museum
Date Acquired: 1992
Collector: Frank Palmer Woolston (1911 – 1998)
Date Collected: 1932-1960s
Where from: Cooktown
Description: Necklace made with 33 ovate pieces cut from Nautilus shell, on a natural fibre string. This necklace 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