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Oscar's sketchbook
In the early 1980s a small book was discovered in a box within a collection from the Australian Institute of Anatomy, the contents were being accessioned into the National Museum of Australia. On the front cover of the book were the words Drawn by Oscar, Cooktown boy, aged 18 years. The book, now known as Oscars Sketchbook, had remained largely unseen for over 100 years.
Oscars Sketchbook contains 40 historically informative, sometimes humorous and often powerfully disturbing images of life on the Australian frontier in the late 19th century. What is even more remarkable is that all the drawings are by a young Aboriginal artist, making it a very rare historical document. > www.nma.gov.au/
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DRAWN BY OSCAR, a Cooktown boy, aged 18 years, now known as Oscars Sketchbook, it had remained largely unseen for over 100 years. More >
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