[Streeter's shed] [picture] / Roger Garwood
- Bib ID:
- 79901
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Garwood, Roger, 1945-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. PIC Drawer PM 15809 #PIC/6474/3 copy
- Description:
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- 1979
- 1 photograph : b&w ; image 30.7 x 45.9 cm., sheet 50.5 x 60.8 cm.
- Series:
- Broome series 1979.
- Summary:
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"'Streeter's Shed' at the land side of Streeter's Jetty was used to grade the large pearl shell. For many years mother of pearl was used for the manufacture of pearl buttons and for decorating matadors 'suits of light' in Spain. The wider use of plastics in the early 1950's placed pressure on the pearling industry but, coinciding with this period, Japanese investors developed a technique for seeding the large Broome pearls. A pearl farm was established in Kuri Bay in the Kimberley region. The use of live shell to culture pearls has since become the mainstay of the modern industry and this shed fell into disrepair and the shed was demolished in the late 1980's. At times shell was stacked as high as the ceiling. Donnelly McKenzie is pictured sorting shell."--Notes from artist.
- Cultural sensitivity advisory notice:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this item may contain images of deceased persons.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisition file number 204/02/00071.
- Condition: Good.
- Photograph signed by artist on verso.
- The board above Donnelly McKenzie reads: "Sorry, we don't sell any pearl shells here."
- Part of the collection of photographs of pearl shells at Broome, Western Australia by Roger Garwood.
- PIC Drawer PM 15809 #PIC/6474/3 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-146279939
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- Copyright is held by Roger Garwood.
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Broome series 1979.
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1979
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