- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Long boomerang with sharply pointed ends. Hole at one end. Curvilinear incisions on one side.
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1900
- Date collected
- By 1900
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1900
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Incised, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length 715 mm tip to tip, Width: max 60 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.55.89
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