drawing
- Museum number
- Oc2006,Drg.51
- Description
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Drawing, watercolour; depicts the front view of the full figure of an Aboriginal woman, wearing a head-gear and garment, holding a digging stick; from the Murray River region of South Australia.
- Production date
- c.1845-1860
- Dimensions
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Height: 19.60 centimetres
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Width: 17.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a set of six of drawings by Coates of Aboriginal Australians held by the British Museum.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good condition
- Acquisition notes
- This was probably part of the collection of artworks and ethnographic objects which Joseph Barnard Davis (q.v.) acquired from Robinson's widow in the 1860s, and which AW Franks (q.v.) later purchased for the British Museum at the auction sale of Davis's estate in 1883.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc2006,Drg.51
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Oc2006-Drg51-Coa
