knout
- Museum number
- Oc1903,0404.24
- Description
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Knout, hank, of two ply string, greased and ochred, secured by two short crossbindings.
- Dimensions
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Height: 28 centimetres
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Width: 4 centimetres
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register slip comments:
'Knouts called Illika, identical in structure with articles used as waist-girdles by the Chingilli & Warramunga Tribes (see no. 10, 1903 4-4 22). They are not used as waist bands, tribes living S. of the Warramunga, but the members of the latter tribe will "sing" them, that is endow them with major power & then they are traded south to the Arunta & adjoining tribes & used by them as objects of magic, principally to keep the women in subsection, as a blow from one of them is supposed to have very bad results'. MSS 12
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1903
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1903,0404.24