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1917.53.156

Stone tool

1917.53.156

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone tool
Geographical reference
Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia
Tasmania [Colebrook]
Person
Field collector John V. Cook
PRM source Anna Rebecca Tylor
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1906
Date collected
1906
Acquisition information
Donated: 1917
Materials and processes
Material Stone
Object numbers
Accession number: 1917.53.156
Research and responses

In the Westlake collection there is a man who has given stone tools to Westlake whose name is often given as J.V.C., his full name was John V. Cook [see biographies file for further information] [AP 10/8/2001]

In Tylor's introduction to H. Ling Roth 18999 'The Aborigines of Tasmania' 2nd edition '...Some of the best of these [stone tool collections from Tasmania in the Pitt Rivers Museum] wer sent by Mr Alexander Morton of the Hobart Museum, and my own collection [he presumably means his private collection], containing numerous formed implements and chips of varied quality, was mostly procured for me by Mr Williamson of Brown's River...' [p. vii]

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