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Hollow bamboo (section) smoking pipe from Barron River area,...
Original labelling on 1985.0059.0399 reads: "Tobacco pipe/Barron River Tribe/North Qland/1900". Edmund Milne (1861-1917...
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Pocket compass in case, used by John Close
This pocket compass was used by John Collinson Close, a member of Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AA...
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Glass plate negative - Old Kai Kai, a Western Arrernte man, ...
Reproduced by Basedow in "The Australian Aboriginal", FW Preece And Sons, Adelaide, 1925, plate VIII. Caption reads: 'Ol...
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Shield, north west Western Australia, 1900
Original label on 1985.0059.0279 reads: "North West Coast/West Austlia/1900" and "N. West Aus". Edmund Milne (1861-1917...
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Shield, Gippsland, Victoria, 1900
Original label on 1985.0059.0301 reads: "Gippsland/Victoria/1900" and "Gippsland Victoria/1900". Edmund Milne (1861-191...
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Bryant and May 'Wax Vestas' match box, used by John Close to...
Used by John Collinson Close, an 'assistant collector' on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914, led by Dou...
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Esbach albuminometer in wooden tube with cork
This simple device was invented by Dr Georges Hubert Esbach, a French physician, in 1874. The test tube, with graduated ...
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Glass plate negative - Women's camp fight, photographed by H...
This is believed to be a fight witnessed by Basedow in the Victoria River district N.T. in 1922.
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Ogden Smiths Mermaid fishing fly
This fishing fly belonged to Thomas Lloyd Forster Rutledge, who was a keen fisherman. During the 1930s, he and some frie...
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Lantern slide - Pitjantjatjara man, central Australia, photo...
Reproduced by Basedow in "The Australian Aboriginal", FW Preece And Sons, Adelaide, 1925, plate IV/2. Caption reads: 'Wo...
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Photographic portrait of man sitting on horse, Thomas Sladdi...
This photograph is a portrait of a man on horseback. It was taken by photographer Thomas Sladdin, who was based in Lyndo...
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Discovery alongside the Barrier
The hand written message on the front reads 'the latest attempt t solve the / mysteries of the South Polar regions / was...
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