Sharply-angled boomerang of plano-convex section with incised, burnt and perforated design of insects and birds on the convex side.

Collection type: Object
Description: Sharply-angled boomerang of plano-convex section with incised, burnt and perforated design of insects and birds on the convex side.
Long description: Sharply-angled boomerang of plano-convex section with incised, burnt and perforated design of insects and birds on the convex side. The inner edge has remains of glue from a repair.
Geographical reference: Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia
Person: Field collector Dr Sutton; Field collector Harvey Vincent Sutton; PRM source Dr Sutton; PRM source Harvey Vincent Sutton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1914
Date collected: By 1914
Acquisition information: Donated: 08/1914
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Glue, Process Carved, Process Burnt, Process Incised, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Length: max 555 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1914.32.5
Research and responses: On Thursday the 13th August 1914, at 2.30p.m. Dr Sutton organised an exhibition of boomerang throwing on the University Oval in Melbourne as part of the Australian meeting of British Association for the Advancement of Science, at which Henry Balfour was present (see this date in his diary of this trip) and at which he must have acquired these boomerangs [CRFW 27/1/2003]

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