[Oswald W.B. Brierly : New Guinea coast and Cape York area during the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake,...
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[Oswald W.B. Brierly : New Guinea coast and Cape York area during the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, ca. 1849-1850]
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PX*D 82
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94RxJdB1
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[Oswald W.B. Brierly : New Guinea coast and Cape York area during the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, ca. 1849-1850]
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[Oswald W.B. Brierly : New Guinea coast and Cape York area during the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, ca. 1849-1850]
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Author / Creator
Date
1849-1850
Call Numbers
PX*D 82
Record Identifier
— Physical Description
Contents
Drawings - 40 cm. x 74 cm. or smaller - 126 drawings (pencil - watercolour)
— Other Descriptions
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Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Creator died before 1955
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
The sketches are of places visited by the H.M.S. Rattlesnake including Albany, Cape York, Cul de Sac de L'Orangerie, Darnely, Dufaure and Prince of Wales' Islands, and the coast of New Guinea. The drawings feature objects of Indigenous material culture such as carvings, implements, and personal ornamentation, as well as aspects of Indigenous knowle...
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
[Oswald W.B. Brierly : New Guinea coast and Cape York area during the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, ca. 1849-1850]
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Creator
— NOTES
General note
Bruinie Island [i.e. Brunai Island], later known as Mbrunai Island or Mbuke Island, Papua New Guinea, is part of the Admiralty Island Group.
References:
Hydrographic Charts at ML Ref. M Charts G 922.7/2 (1922) and M Charts G 922.7/4 (1934)
United States Board on Geographic Names. Gazetteer ; no. 29 Southwest Pacific : official standard na...
Signature / Inscriptions
Most drawings are titled and dated
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Bequeathed by D.S. Mitchell, 1907
Exhibited in
Upon a painted ocean. Sir Oswald Brierly
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— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
PX*D 82
Record Identifier
94RxJdB1
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Reference code
421776
