Indigenous Australians hunting kangaroos, c1817

Description

This is a 17.7 cm x 27.7 cm watercolour of a hunter poised to throw a spear at one of a number of kangaroos; he is lying on his front behind a fallen tree, his head and chest raised and his right arm stretching back ready to throw the spear from a spear thrower. Four other hunters wait behind trees in the distance with weapons in their hands. It is daytime and the figures are shown in a verdant landscape leading down to a river or lake in the middle background.

Acknowledgements