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Glass plate negative - Rock paintings, Forrest River, Western Australia, photographed by Herbert Basedow, 1916

Object type
Glass plate negatives

Object number
1985.0060.1071.001

Description
Black and white glass plate negative showing rock paintings of animals and other motifs on a vertical rock face.

Reproduced by Basedow in "The Australian Aboriginal", FW Preece and Sons, Adelaide, 1925, plate XLVII/1. Caption reads: 'Cave drawings (kangaroo, etc.), Forrest River, north-western Australia.'

Collection name
Dr Herbert Basedow collection

Photographer
Dr Herbert Basedow

Place designed
Forrest River, Western Australia, Australia

Date photographed
1916

Place depicted
Forrest River, Western Australia, Australia

Date photographed
1916

Materials
Photographic emulsion, Glass

Dimensions
Length: 100mm
Width: 125mm

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