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

This watercolour 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 southwest region of the continent. See Dufour/Tilbrook (1986) pp. 25-26 for more extensive information.

Medium
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.
Website
https://collection.artgallery.wa.gov.au/objects/4487/not-titled-possuming-an-aborigine-notching-a-tree