- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Boomerang, sharply curved almost at an angle. It is wide in the middle and tapers towards each end.
- 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 560 mm, Width: max 64 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.25.28 PR Cat other PR nos: 155
- Research and responses
Information from John Stanton of the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia 13.11.96 - ?Typical musical boomerang from Goldfields region of Western Australia [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
1884.25.28
Boomerang, sharply curved almost at an angle. It is wide in the middle and tapers towards each end.
On display
1884.25.28
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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