glider
Language:
Australian:
Dab-bie
English JS Main:
glider
English:
Ò"Native name Dab-bie".
The drawing is unsigned and undated, but is in the style of Thomas Watling and has been attributed to him in Wheeler and Smith (1988).
This mammal has been identified as the Sugar Glider, Petaurus breviceps, by John Calaby in Wheeler and Smith (1988).
The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.Ó Sugar glider
Category:
fauna: mammals
Sub-category:
possum
Source:
Smith & Wheeler
Page:
164
Line:
175
Respelt:
dabi
Part of speech:
noun
Source Details:
Smith, Bernard and Wheeler, Alwyne, 1988. The Art of the First Fleet & other early Australian Drawings. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, New Haven amd London, in association with the Australian Academy for the Humanitioes and the British Museum (Natural History). 256 pp.
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Comment:
Watling 85: