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1898.75.35

Hunting boomerang of plano-convex section with 2 knot-holes at one end and visible tool marks.

1898.75.35

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Collection type
Object
Description
Hunting boomerang of plano-convex section with 2 knot-holes at one end and visible tool marks.
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1898
Date collected
By 1898
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1898
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 630 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1898.75.35
Research and responses

Related Documents File - Handwritten inventory and pricelist of, presumably, all the objects sold to the Pitt Rivers Museum. [MOB 9/10/2001]

Associated publications
Illustrated in black and white as figure 56 on page 48 of Australia in Oxford, edited by Howard Morphy and Elizabeth Edwards (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Monograph 4, 1988). [JC 1995]

Search terms: Weapon, Hunting, Boomerang, Hunting accessory