Mowbray Gray Collection

196. Mowbray Gray collection. 

A group of Queensland artefacts comprising of fifteen spears and four finely engraved boomerangs. The longest of the spears measures 2m 30cm. The boomerangs measure 70cm long and the shortest is 67cm long. 

This group was collected by Mowbray Gray, please see the attached albumen print (not included) that depicts the spears in situ at Wongalee station. This must date to before the property was sold by the Grays in 1882.

Provenance- Mowbray Gray.

Owned by a family who lived in Australia and then passed down by decent. 

His brother was Robert Gray, it is known that he collected some Aboriginal artefacts which are now held in museum and private collections. 

Mowbray Gray married Eva Roberts c1880 in Hobart and they lived on Hughenden Station until the house at Wongalee was built. The property was put up for sale by Mowbray in 1882, the area totalling two hundred and ten square miles including part of Canterbury. In the sale were 3,200 sheep, 1700 head of cattle and about 25 horses. They returned to England in 1892.

The Grays are considered pioneer settlers of the Hughenden area. Hughenden was named after Hughenden Manor the home of Disraeli. The Grays grandfather John Norris had once owned the Manor.

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