- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stone barkcloth beater. It is oval in section, rounded at both ends and widens slightly from the handle to the head. The head is incised on one edge with a grid of small squares. A large section of stone has been flaked off at the handle end. [JC [OPS Move] 31/3/2017]
- Geographical reference
- South coast of New Britain Bismarck Archipelago
- Cultural groups
- Anga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 10/1936?, uncertain Date made: 10/1936?, uncertain
- Date collected
- October 1936
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1938
- Dimensions
- Length: max 271 mm, Depth: max 30 mm, Width: max 47 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1938.36.589 Other numbers: Blackwood ii 589
1938.36.589
Stone barkcloth beater. It is oval in section, rounded at both ends and widens slightly from the handle to the head. The head is incised on one edge with a grid of small squares. A large section of stone has been flaked off at the handle end. [JC [OPS Move] 31/3/2017]
1938.36.589
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