Small curved boomerang with rounded ends.

Collection type: Object
Description: Small curved boomerang with rounded ends.
Long description: Small curved boomerang with rounded ends. Both sides of the boomerang have been carved with a grooved surface texture. The entire object is orange in colour.
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 Pigment, Process Carved, Process Grooved
Dimensions: Width: max 50 mm, Length: max 550 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1914.32.4
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]

Search terms: Weapon, Boomerang

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