Two Aboriginal Boys Making a Fire with Sticks

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Object Number 2004.29.21631

Display Title Two Aboriginal Boys Making a Fire with Sticks

Descriptions

Object Description Written on board: Australia 3. Making Fire with a Fire-Stick (verso) Gift of Alexander Agassiz 1899

Department Photographic

Culture

Aborigine

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

Oceania / Australia

Materials Print, black and white adhered to Paperboard

Dimensions Overall: 13 × 19.9 cm (5 1/8 × 7 13/16 in.)

Quantity 1

Provenance

Donor Donated by Alexander Agassiz

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2004.29.21734	Three Aboriginal Women sitting in camp, one of which is making a dillybag.	Queensland
2004.29.21760	Large group of Aboriginal people, men and boys standing, holding spears and shields, and women seated on the ground	Australia
2004.29.21735	Two Aboriginal men at camp pointing their spears upwards	Queensland
2004.29.21736	Aboriginal man at camp holding a spear above his head, two shelters behind him	Queensland
2004.29.21771	Studio portrait of an Aboriginal man, Madillah, Goinchilla Tribe	Queensland
2004.29.21772	Portrait of an Aboriginal man, Jerracoot. Wallinumah Tribe. Gilbert River	Queensland
2004.29.21733	Group shot in studio of 7 male Aboriginals	Australia
12-61-70/10861.1.1997	Four Mangyan boys making a fire	Mindoro Island
2004.29.21624	Studio-stage scene of Aboriginal Boy holding Axe	Australia
2004.29.22117	Group of men making fire	Fiji
2004.29.12304	Man and boy procuring fire in front of a hut	Africa
2001.29.32693	≠Gao (headman of Band 3) and "/Qui Hunter" making a fire, with ≠Gao twirling the "male" stick in the notch of the "female" stick, steadying it with his digging stick and his foot (print is a cropped image)	Gautscha

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