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Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/5/5/8

Gum tree, on the creek bank, at the Chowilla Dam site, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/5/5/7

Gum tree, on the creek bank, at the Chowilla Dam site, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/5/6/1

Gum tree, at the Chowilla Dam site, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/5/6/2

Gum tree, at the Chowilla Dam site, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/5/6/3

Gum tree, at the Chowilla Dam site, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/5/6/4

Gum tree, at the Chowilla Dam site, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/5/6/5

Gum tree, at the Chowilla Dam site, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/5/6/6

Gum tree, at the Chowilla Dam site, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/5/6/7

Gum tree, at the Chowilla Dam site, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/5/6/8

Gum tree, at the Chowilla Dam site, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/14/18

An Aboriginal man, in trousers and jumper, wearing a hard hat, displays what appears to be pieces of bark from a tree from which a native canoe has been cut, in the Yuendumu region of the Northern Territory.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1966, Photograph, PRG 1409/15/7

Gum tree, on the bank of the Murray River, from which a canoe has been made.Shacks are visible on the opposite bank of the river.

Canoe trees

Canoe trees

Edwards, Robert, c. 1966, Photograph, PRG 1409/15/9

Two boys look at gum trees, on the bank of the Murray River, from which canoes have been made. There are shacks visible on the other bank of the river.

Canoe tree at Blanchetown

Canoe tree at Blanchetown

Edwards, Robert, c. 1966, Photograph, PRG 1409/12/1

Gum tree, on the bank of the Murray River, from which a canoe has been made. In the background is a weir across the river and the town of Blanchetown on the opposite bank.

Canoe tree at Blanchetown

Canoe tree at Blanchetown

Edwards, Robert, c. 1966, Photograph, PRG 1409/12/2

Gum tree, from which a canoe has been made, in the Blanchetown area.

Canoe tree at Blanchetown

Canoe tree at Blanchetown

Edwards, Robert, c. 1966, Photograph, PRG 1409/12/3

Gum tree, on the bank of the Murray River, from which a canoe has been made. In the background is a weir across the river and the town of Blanchetown on the opposite bank.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/10/1

Gum tree, at Chowilla, from which a canoe has been made. The pressure of new wood, growing over the scar left by bark removal, has forced out the decaying core.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/10/9

Gum tree, at Chowilla, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/10/11

Gum tree, at Chowilla, from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/10/19

Dead gum tree at Chowilla from which a canoe has been made.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, c. 1965, Photograph, PRG 1409/14/17

A tree, from which a native canoe has been cut, in the Yuendumu region of the Northern Territory.

'Canoe tree - Loxton'

'Canoe tree - Loxton'

c. 1936, Photograph, PRG 287/1/4/31

The trunk of the canoe tree at Loxton showing the area where the bark has been stripped away by local Aborigines to make a canoe.

Canoe tree, Currency Creek

Canoe tree, Currency Creek

Joyner, Frederick Allen, c. 1920, Photograph, B 62710

CURRENCY CREEK: A gum tree near Currency Creek which has had its bark cut into by Aboriginal people in order to make a canoe.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, 1967, Photograph, PRG 1409/23/23

'Great care had to be taken to ensure that the dead and brittle tree was not damaged during removal and transport to the Museum. A prefabricated, padded cradle was erected around the tree to enable it to be lowered to the ground by a mobile crane.' [Robert Edwards in article entitled 'A Unique Tree from Mannum, S.A.' in the Friends of the South Australian Museum Newsletter (no. 4, June 1967).

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, 1967, Photograph, PRG 1409/23/6

The operator of a mobile crane lowers a beam onto an eleven metre long gum tree at Mannum on 15 March 1967. A man secures a rope at the base of the tree.

Canoe tree at Blanchetown

Canoe tree at Blanchetown

Edwards, Robert, c. 1966, Photograph, PRG 1409/12/8

Silhouette of a gum tree, on the river bank, with Blanchetown on the other side of the river. The weir crosses the river not far from the tree. Image very dak, possibly taken at night.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, 1967, Photograph, PRG 1409/23/1

South Australian Museum staff look on as scaffolding is erected around an eleven metre long gum tree at Mannum on 15th March 1967.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, 1967, Photograph, PRG 1409/23/2

South Australian Museum staff look on as scaffolding is erected around an eleven metre long gum tree at Mannum on 15 March 1967.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, 1967, Photograph, PRG 1409/23/3

South Australian Museum staff look on as scaffolding is erected around an eleven metre long gum tree at Mannum on 15 March 1967.

Canoe tree

Canoe tree

Edwards, Robert, 1967, Photograph, PRG 1409/23/4

South Australian Museum staff look on as a mobile crane lowers a beam onto an eleven metre long gum tree at Mannum on 15 March 1967.