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Owner:
Museum Victoria -
Location:
VIC -
Maker:
Unknown -
Pattern:
Animal Skins -
Pattern:
Pieced -
Dimensions:
Height: 207
Width: 154
History
This cloak was made by an unknown Aboriginal person from Lake Condah in western Victoria in 1872. "Only five possum skin cloaks made in south eastern Australia before 1900 have survived. Two are in Museum Victoria's collection. The others are in museums in Britain, the USA and Germany. The meaning of the designs on this cloak were not recorded. However designs could represent clan design, natural features, animals and plants." [Dr Michael Pickering, 23 August 2000]
Description
Possum skin cloak. Possum skins sewn together with vegetable fibre or kangaroo sinew. Designs incised into the skins, some of which are decorated with ochres.
2070 x 1540mm
