Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10059
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Australian flint tools
Date
ca.1904
Creator - Organisation
The Crown Studios , Photographer
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 93mm
width (print): 133mm
height (mount): 167mm
width (mount): 108mm
width (print): 133mm
height (mount): 167mm
width (mount): 108mm
Subject
Description
Upper side views of two flint hand tools made by native Australians. The tools are shown with specimen labels, and cast a slight shadow.
One of two cabinet photographs collected by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury FRS (1834-1914) and kept within a small portfolio of notes for subsequent editions of his book Prehistoric Times (1865).
Inscribed in ink verso: “New South Wales Aboriginal chipped implements. Upper side. 1 2. ” The numbers are repeated to the side of each specimen, in ink. Beneath the photograph is the additional annotation “The name on the specimens is incorrectly written Port Harbour. It should be Boat Harbour.” The image has a tissue overlay upon which is printed in green, the trademark: “THE CROWN BROMIDE ENLARGEMENT COY.” And “The Crown Studios, CORNER OF GEORGE & MARKET STS. SYDNEY.” The same information is embossed on the card support, beneath the image with the additional detail; “VICE REGAL PHOTOGRAPHERS”.
One of two cabinet photographs collected by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury FRS (1834-1914) and kept within a small portfolio of notes for subsequent editions of his book Prehistoric Times (1865).
Inscribed in ink verso: “New South Wales Aboriginal chipped implements. Upper side. 1 2. ” The numbers are repeated to the side of each specimen, in ink. Beneath the photograph is the additional annotation “The name on the specimens is incorrectly written Port Harbour. It should be Boat Harbour.” The image has a tissue overlay upon which is printed in green, the trademark: “THE CROWN BROMIDE ENLARGEMENT COY.” And “The Crown Studios, CORNER OF GEORGE & MARKET STS. SYDNEY.” The same information is embossed on the card support, beneath the image with the additional detail; “VICE REGAL PHOTOGRAPHERS”.
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