- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Long slightly curved boomerang with rounded ends. The boomerang has been carved with a grooved surface texture on both sides. [El.B 20/08/2007]
- Person
- Field collector Henry Nottidge Moseley
- Field collector HMS Challenger
- PRM source Amabel Nevill Sollas
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1876
- Date collected
- 1872 - 1876
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 04/1915
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Grooved
- Dimensions
- Width: max 53 mm, Length: max 887 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1915.25.23
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