Close up photograph of the fish trap at Wave Hill. Suggests reading the book “Pack-Horse and Water-Hole” by Gordon Buchanan (1864-?) about the opening up of the district. Arrival of Mathieson, the Manager of Manbullo. Departure by car from Wave Hill (NT) on 28 June [1934] with Alec Moray.

1. Photograph: ‘The fish trap at Wave Hill’

2. Photograph: ‘The departure from Wave Hill. From the left Alec Moray, Mr Schultz, Peter Sinclair, Mr Mathieson, Johnnie Newmarch, ‘Tchmila’ as Smiler calls himself, Mathieson’s boy’

Places mentioned: Wave Hill (NT); Manbullo [Station] (NT); Katherine (NT); Vesteys

People mentioned: [Duncan Neil] Mathieson (1891-1979); Alec Moray; Schultz; Peter Sinclair; Johnnie Newmarch; Tchmila (Australian Aboriginal man); Gordon Buchanan (1864-?)

Books mentioned: Pack-Horse and Water-Hole (published 1933)

Photo number/s as per Journal and Index of Photographs: 268, 269