M0008737: A Warramunga man making an axe-head out of diorite

Previous title, replaced October 2020: An axe-head and figure of an Australian native

Photograph of a page from an unknown publication including two images. One is a drawing of a block of diorite. The other is a photograph of a man of the Warramunga people of the Northern Territory of Australia making an axe-head out of diorite.

01 January 1943

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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