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South-West Collection

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Brief description

An important collection of objects from the South-West of Western Australia collected between the 1890s and 1940s.

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The South-West collections are an important sub-set within the larger ethnographic collections of the Western Australian Museum. Beginning in the early 1900s the collection contains a variety of objects relating to the traditional, contact and historical period lives of Noongar people in the south-west of Western Australia. The collection contains around 350 objects, including a number of rare items from the early colonial period such as kodj's (hatchets) from the Swan River and Bunbury, and two bookas (kangaroo skin cloaks) from Cranbrook and Gnowangerup. It is one of the largest collections from this region in any museum and provides a valuable record of the cultural property produced and used by Noongar people.

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Related External Collection: Museum Victoria Forrest Collection

Data time period: 1830 to 1940

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Spatial Coverage And Location

text: Western Australia

text: York

text: Perth

text: Bunbury

text: Arthur River

text: Pinjarra

text: south-west

Subjects
19th & 20th century | Aboriginal artefacts | Aboriginal culture | Aboriginal peoples | Aboriginal peoples (Australians) | Artefacts | Clothing | Indigenous Australian peoples | Noongar | tools | tools & weapons | traditional life | weapons |

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  • Local : WAM 13