Saturday, March 28, 2009

From Frederic Wood Jones

Porcelain, bone china, glaze 2007
From Fred Wood Jones 1923 -1925, Adelaide, South Australia, and a side note: Wood Jones, an Englishman, was appointed to the Chair of Anatomy at the University of Adelaide in 1919,
"Only a few years ago this animal was extremely common over the greater part of South Australia. Twenty years ago the dealers in Adelaide did a great trade in selling them at about ninepence a head for coursing on Sunday afternoons. It may surprise people who remember those days to know that there is not a preserved specimen, of even a skin of the animal, available ... in South Australia today.
They were wonderfully nimble animals, and Krefft records seeing one get over a close palisade fence 8 ft. in height; but they were not very fast, and were easily caught, even by "common dogs".
Heads, 2009

Monday, March 16, 2009

monday morning

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Atherton, Queensland, June