Drovers Boy
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Original Oil Painting on Canvas
By Helen Norton
80 x 100 cm
1992 Beasts and Beauties
There are many tales (true) of drovers taking a young Aboriginal woman with him on his long droving journeys and dressing her as a boy. The young woman would share his swag and be a kind of 'mustering mistress and cook' with no pay of course.