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Cane Fire


 

Title: Canefire.

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Size: 101cm x 69cm (including frame).

Description: Burning the sugarcane is still occasionally done. It was a practice in the early Kanaka days. It cleared the cane of vermin and trash which made it safer and easier to cut.

Framing: Professionally framed.

 


 

 

Kanaker Bell

Title: Kanaker Bell.

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Size: 93cm x 64cm (including frame).

Description: The bell was rung throughout the day to tell the kanaka workers of the starts and breaks in their day. It still remains as a reminder of the part it played in the lives of the farmers and their workers in the Isis district.

Framing: Professionally framed.

 

Lizard’s view

 

Title: Lizard’s view.

Medium: Watercolour.

Size: 61cm x 49cm (including frame).

Description: The Kanaka Pool where the early indentured labourers swam, is now used only by the wild life and farm animals.

Framing: Professionally framed under glass.


Art and Handcraft by Susanne Graham.
Indigenous Australian Aboriginal Artist

EMAIL:
PO Box 897 Childers Queensland 4660 Australia

www.dalung.com

Copyright © Susanne Graham 2004

Website created and maintained by Ron Graham

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