1935.71.3

Collection type

Object

Description

Stone flake

Long description

Tool used for piercing the nasal septum.

Geographical reference

Australia

Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia

New South Wales

Person

Field collector Jane Catharine Tost

Field collector Ada Jane Rohu

Field collector Alan Herbert Coltart

PRM source Alan Herbert Coltart

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1935

Date collected

By 1935

Acquisition information

Purchased: 1935

Materials and processes

Material Stone, Process Flaked

Dimensions

Length: max 38 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1935.71.3

Research and responses

Related Documents File - Printed version of the website of the Macleay Museum [http://www.usyd.edu.au/su/macleay/ctaxidex.htm] - Jane Tost (c.1817-1889) and her daughter Ada Rohu (c.1845-1928) were taxidermists who ran the firm Tost and Coates (later Tost and Rohu) based in Sydney which operated from 1872 until the 1930s. According to information supplied by the website of the Macleay Museum 'In the late nineteenth century, Tost and Rohu increasingly turned its efforts towards selling furs and ethnographic objects. From the 1890s, the firm advertised as Furriers and Island Curio Dealers, and claimed to hold the largest stock of Australian and Pacific Islander artefacts in Australia. It sold and shipped such material all over the world.' This information also contains a biography of Tost and Rohu. It is most likely that Coltart purchased these objects from Tost and Rohu. [MdeA 26/4/2001] [MOB 4/12/2001]

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