- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Small boomerang with sharply pointed ends. Grooved on one side, the other incised with geometric design and X motif.
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1900
- Date collected
- By 1900
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1900
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Incised, Process Grooved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 610 mm tip to tip
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1900.55.86 Other numbers: 19
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