Collected

By Susan M Davies, Macleay Museum, Rosemary Stack

Collected
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Essay on and photos of the Northern Territory collections - fighting stick, clubs, spear throwers, drone-pipe, model canoe, baskets, bag, belts, arm bands, neck ornaments, boomerangs hatchets, ceremonial spears; the bark painting collection; the Western Australian collections - shield, spear-throwers, boomerangs, saw-knives coolamon, feather bundle and fire sticks, spindle, glass stone and shell implements, pearl-shell ornaments; the Queensland collections - spear throwers, club, neck ornament, shields, baskets, boomerangs, kangaroo carving; and the New South Wales collections - shields, clubs, boomerangs; includes notes on collectors; attributes artefacts to owners where known.