Historical information

The Melbourne Centenary was a 1934 centennial celebration of the founding of the city of Melbourne. Held between October 1934 and June 1935. Reporting on the parade, The Argus described the Kew float as "Grass tussocks and sandy slope set on a frame so low that the foundation seemed part of the ground, (it) carried a rotted tree stump in the centre and a fallen tree trunk upon which two tiger snakes were coiled. Four Aborigines from North Australia sat in front of a mia-mia of gum boughs, while smoke curled from a fire beside them and a waterfall splashed over stones on a ferny bank." Photograph taken at Stradbroke Park, in what is now Kew East.

Physical description

Colourised photograph of City of Kew float for Centenary of Melbourne celebrations, at Stradbroke Park, Kew East, taken 1934. Shows float depicting Aboriginal shelter with large hollow eucalypt log and tussock grass decoration, four Aboriginal men with spears standing on float, grassy park with eucalypts behind.