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Wooden boat. [B 74036/9] • Photograph

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Summary

Wooden boat with pampas grass sail in sea created from flowers.

Restrictions

This image depicts Australian Aboriginal people or aspects of their culture.

Conditions of use

Physical description

Positive (slide, colour), 35mm.

Dates / Publication details

1974

Photographer

Rogers, Joyce

Collection

Part of Rogers Collection

Subject

Adelaide Festival of Arts (8th : 1974)
Flower Day (Adelaide : 1974)
Festivals -- South Australia -- Adelaide

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Local notes

Contains Aboriginal content

Historical information

1974 was the last year that Flower Day was held in conjunction with the Adelaide Festival of Arts. 'One of my most unpopular moves, after the 1974 festival at which it had been a bit of a fizzer, was to bring to an end Flower Day, the community event that had opened each festival and in its heyday had evidently been rather a magnificent affair. To my mind, though, it suffered from two serious defects: its format was entirely predictable and it had no professional guiding hand. When I was very much in new broom mode I felt therefore that it simply had to go'.[Source: Painful in Daily Doses: An Anecdotal Memoir by Anthony Steel, pages 145-146.]

Digitisation information

Date

05/11/2014

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

4,081 x 6,055 pixels (24.7 MP)

Size

74.16 MB

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