AR / ITEM / 00100125

Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home gate

Maker unknown

One surviving half of the original front gates of Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home, preserved as material evidence of the Stolen Generations and the experiences of more than 400 boys held there.

Date
used 1924–about 1950
Collection
National Museum of Australia

Plate not recorded
No photograph with documented reuse rights is held for this record.

Record

Origin
Australia

Provenance and history

  1. used 1924–about 1950

    CreatedA

  2. 2012

    Transferred to the National Museum of AustraliaA

    Donated following custodianship by Dunghutti Elder Uncle Harold 'Bluey' Smith and the Kinchela community.

Sources

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