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Aboriginal weapons and implements, "Wig goon, Womarang, Woo da"

Artist: Port Jackson Painter
Created: [between 1788 and 1797]
Dimensions: 23.8 x 18.3 cm
Reference: Watling Drawing - no. 78

 

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  • Port Jackson Painter]
  • The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "87". This refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling Collection.
  • The drawing is annotated in brown ink at upper centre "Wig goon", at centre "Womarang", and at lower centre "Woo da".
  • The drawing is unsigned and undated.
  • The implements are similar to those depicted with further notes in Watling drawings no. 71 and 77, and also Raper drawing no. 3.
  • The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
  • By permission of the trustees of the Natural History Museum (London)
  • Two sets of transparencies held in the Natural History Museum (London) Zoology Library and Picture Library: Picture Library order number 12078
  • James Lee of Kensington : purchased ; 1902
  • Data sheet available.
  • Wheeler, A. and Smith, B, (eds.) The Art of the First Fleet and other early Australian Drawings. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1988. (Plate 52, p. 59.)