RELICS Chinese settlement (?) Shark Bay

CH1973.154

Sherds, glass fragments, stone flakes, bones. Collect at Shark Bay at a supposed Chinese settlement site (pearlers). Material not Chinese in character. Stone flakes suggest later Aboriginal occupation. (2 specimen boxes).

Department: 

History Department

Collection

History Collection

Collection Item Data

Accession Number: CH1973.154
Accession Date: 28 Aug 1973

Material

Stone/Stone

glass, bone, ceramic, stone

Ceramic
Glass
Glass/Glass
Stone
Bone/Skeletal

 


 

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