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Title
Possuming, An Aborigine notching a tree
Date
c.1843 - c.1845
Description

This drawing depicts a Kodz axe definitively linking the whole folio to Western Australia. Pivotal to obtaining a special grant from the Government of Western Australia to purchase Ffarington’s Folio.
Stone axes were used throughout Australia, but the construction of the kodz axe was restricted to the south west region. See Dufour/Tilbrook (1986) pp. 25-26 for more extensive information.

Medium
pencil 22 x 14.2 cm The State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, purchase 1984. Acc. no. 1984/00W4.18.
Website
https://collection.artgallery.wa.gov.au/objects/4501/not-title-possuming-an-aborigine-notching-a-tree

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Mediums
  • pencil 22 x 14.2 cm The State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, purchase 1984. Acc. no. 1984/00W4.18.
  • watercolour over pencil underdrawing, 26.4 x 17.1 cm The State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, purchase 1984. Acc. no. 1984/00W4.4.
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