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1900.55.124

Swan-neck boomerang with rounded ends and a grooved surface texture carved on both sides.

1900.55.124

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Collection type
Object
Description
Swan-neck boomerang with rounded ends and a grooved surface texture carved on both sides.
Long description
Swan-neck boomerang with rounded ends and a grooved surface texture carved on both sides. The boomerang is painted red with white bands painted at the swan-necked end.
Person
Field collector Harry Stockdale
PRM source Robert Francis Wilkins
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1900
Date collected
By 1900
Acquisition information
Donated: 1900
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Carved, Process Grooved
Dimensions
Length x Width: max 790 x 70 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1900.55.124
Associated publications
Discussed and illustrated in black and white in 'A Swan-Neck Boomerang of Unusual Form', by Henry Balfour, in Man, Vol. I (1901), art. 27, p. 33 (see figure 1 on plate C opposite). (Copy in RDF.) [JC 18 7 1997]

Search terms: Weapon, Boomerang

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