Drum from Saibai Island, Torres Strait, c1950s

Drum from Saibai Island, Torres Strait, c1950s

Location

Saibai Island Torres Strait, QLD
Australia
QE5029
Queensland Museum
Made in Western Province, Papua New Guinea, used on Saibai Island, Torres Strait
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Saibai Island Torres Strait, QLD
Australia
Dimensions
710mm
130mm
130mm

Cabinet radio, 1937-58

Music Masters Radio Company was the largest manufacturer of radios and radiograms in Queensland in the 1930s and 1940s, making well-crafted, fashionable items like this cabinet radio for lounge roo

Location

Australia
H25518
Queensland Museum
Brisbane
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
865mm
729mm
315mm

Air mailbag, 1931

Air mailbag, 1931

Location

Australia
H3077
Queensland Museum
Brisbane
1 January 1931
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
895mm
745mm
12mm

Portable altar set

Portable altar set

Location

Australia
H27692
Queensland Museum
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
295mm
265mm
115mm

Crate of Kirk's softdrink bottles

Crate of Kirk's softdrink bottles

Location

Australia
H43559
Queensland Museum
28 October 2010

Copyright © Queensland Museum, 2010

Australia
Dimensions
220mm
412mm
270mm

Pituri bag, c1897. Collection of the Queensland Museum

Collection of the Queensland Museum

When pituri was traded throughout Central Australia it was carried in beautiful bags like this one. This bag was collected by J.A.

Queensland Bush Book Club, Annual Report, 1936

I have to thank you for the wonderful holiday. I haven’t been away for many years but I travelled far and wide with the last parcel. The perfect holiday they say combines escape inwards with escape outwards but when the latter is not forthcoming, it is still possible to obtain the escape inwards - for a member of the Bush Book Club anyway.

I have had the most entrancing holiday, visiting Java with Winifred Ponder. I have been admitted to Farthing Hall and watched the development of a romantic love story and enjoyed the domestic difference of two very likeable people.

1 January 1936
28 September 2010
28 September 2010

Queensland Bush Book Club, Annual Reports, 1921-67, University of Queensland Library

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