..CAPNO Gresser.P2.BW

..DEPOSITR Percy J Gresser

..CAPTION LIST covers N3407

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..NUMBER N3407.31a

..PLACE Fish River, near Bathurst, NSW

..DSCRPTN a tree carved by Aborigines. This photograph represents

the carved tree before it was cut down. It stood in Portion No 6,

Parish Langdale, County Westmoreland, and by the side of the road

leading from the Bathurst-O'Connell road to the O'Connell-Lagoon

road about 9 miles from Bathurst, on the west side of the Fish

River, and about half a mile from the ford over the river

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..NEWDOC

..NUMBER N3407.34a

..PLACE Fish River, near Bathurst, NSW

..DSCRPTN close up view of the tree as it appeared in situ. It

was one of a number of carved trees standing in a rough circle.

The stumps on the right and those behind represent the remains of

some of the others. The trunk of this tree was presented to the

Technical Museum, Bathurst by Mr J R Godfrey, May 1929

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