spear thrower
- Museum number
- Oc.4758
- Description
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Spear-thrower of wood, with a wooden peg attached at one end with fibre and resin. At the other end is a piece of tooth or bone (non-human) set into a lump of resin.
- Production date
- 1835 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 69.80 centimetres
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Width: 8 centimetres
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Depth: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Handwritten paper label stuck on spearthrower reads:
'Throwing sticks, used by the Natives
at King Georges Sound (Meer...)
A. Collie. Surgeon. R.N.'
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Comment on registration slip:
Haslar. A. Collie Surg. R.N. he calls it 'Meer'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2016-2017 Nov-Apr, Albany, Western Australian Museum, Aboriginal objects from the Albany region of Western Australia
2020 LTL, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia, 'Connections' CANCELLED
- Condition
- Reasonable
- Acquisition date
- 1860-1869
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc.4758
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Oc186?C1.4758 (old CDMS no.)
