Noose with kangaroo bone pin in wooden glass fronted frame with 1900.55.132. [ZM 7/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Noose with kangaroo bone pin in wooden glass fronted frame with 1900.55.132. [ZM 7/10/2005]
Long description: Noose with kangaroo bone pin. The noose is strengthened at the loop and at the joint with the pin with bound animal sinew. [SM 19/06/2009]
Geographical reference: Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia; Victoria Murray River Tyntyndar possibly New South Wales
Person: Field collector John R. Peebles; PRM source Robert Francis Wilkins
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1857
Date collected: 1857
Acquisition information: Donated: 1900
Materials and processes: Material Kangaroo Bone Animal, Material String, Material Animal Sinew, Process Bound, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 331 mm frame, Width: max 281 mm frame
Object numbers: Accession number: 1900.55.131
Research and responses: Cf. Norman Hardy's picture, No. 701, p. 215. Also Brough Smyth I, p. 351. Also Partington Album ser. III pl. 135, fig.1. [LMM?]
This object was examined by Elizabeth Willis in June 2009. She noted that the noose had been strengthened with sinew (probably kangaroo sinew) at the loop and at the base of the bone pin. [SM 19/06/2009]
Associated publications: H. Balfour 'Strangling cords from the Murray River, Victoria, Australia. Cord found in the neighbourhood of Tyntynder in 1857 by Mr Peebles' Published in Man Vol 1, 1901, p.117-118 [SM 19/06/2009]

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