- Port Jackson Painter]
- The drawing is inscribed in blue pencil at top right with the number "80". This refers to the pre-1984 numbering system for the Watling collection.
- The implements are numbered 1-4, and the drawing annotated in black ink, at lower left, "1. A sword made of hard wood 2. A water buckett made of bark" and at lower right "3. A Fish gigg from 10 to 12 feet long 4. A spear from 10 to 12 feet long -".
- The drawing is unsigned and undated.
- The sword (number 1) is also depicted in Watling drawing number 78, where it is labelled with its aboriginal name.
- 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 12071
- 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 44, p. 52.)
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