Flake, small and pointed made from grey stone possibly ?chert. [SM 08/08/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Flake, small and pointed made from grey stone possibly ?chert. [SM 08/08/2007]
Geographical reference: Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia; South Australia Woaquine Woakwine
Person: Field collector Herbert Vander Vord Noone; PRM source Herbert Vander Vord Noone
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1940
Date collected: 1930 - 1940
Acquisition information: Donated: 1947
Materials and processes: Material Stone, Process Flaked
Dimensions: Length: max 41 mm, Width: max 17 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1947.9.54
Research and responses: see sketch-map showing relative positions of sites for 1947.9.44-61 & 1947.9.72 on accession book (XII) page 222a. [SD 11/7/2000]
In the Knowles papers there is correspondence between Alfred Barnes and Francis Knowles (both of whom knew Herbert Noone). In a letter dated 14 May 1943 Barnes wrote "I am asking him [Noone] to get some [Aborigine] cores and flakes for the PR". (Knowles papers box 2 bundle IIIE 14 May 1943 page 3) It may be these items were collected by Noone in response to this request from Barnes (who he had been staying with when the letter was written). [CB 9/12/2009]

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