- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Boomerang, wooden, curved, slightly wider in the middle. [AR 08/08/2007]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1874
- Date collected
- ?By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 540 mm, Width: max 53 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.25.26 PR Cat other PR nos: 153
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