Water colour drawings of Australian Aboriginal rock art from Napier Broome Bay and Parry Harbour North Western Australia.

Archive Collections / Gerald Freer Hill / Water colour drawings of Australian Aboriginal rock art from Napier Broome Bay and Parry Harbour North Western Australia.
Date Range1909  -  1910
CollectionGerald Freer Hill
Quantity   30   Drawings
Series IdentifierAA 134/01

This series contains thirty loose water colours of rock paintings and carvings. Of the drawings twenty-seven have a corresponding slide (AA 134/2), and three have no slide. Charles Pearcy Mountford (AA 228) used these images in his paper Examples of Aboriginal art from Napier Broome Bat and Parry Harbour, North Western Australia published in 1937 in the Royal Society of South Australia Transactions. It is possible he kept some of the drawings, There are also some drawings he uses which the South Australian Museum has neither the origial drawing nor a slide.

The series was digitised in June 2010.

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