Large paddle shaped spear-thrower with knob of resin at handle and hook bound by gut and set in resin at the other end.

Collection type: Object
Description: Large paddle shaped spear-thrower with knob of resin at handle and hook bound by gut and set in resin at the other end.
Long description: Large paddle shaped spear-thrower with knob of resin at handle and hook bound by gut and set in resin at the other end. Three parallel bands of lines carved over incised chevron pattern. Painted with red ochre. Notched on one edge as a musical rasp.
Geographical reference: Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia
Person: Field collector Emile Louis Bruno Clement; PRM source Emile Louis Bruno Clement
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1898
Date collected: By 1898
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1898
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Resin Plant, Material Animal Gut, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Bound, Process Painted
Dimensions: Width: max 175 mm, Length: max 660 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1898.75.27
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]

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