boomerang
- Museum number
- Oc1846,0809.14
- Description
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Boomerang of pale brown wood, broad and flat; one face more convex than the other; two ends lighter in tint than the rest of the body.
- Production date
- 19thC (before 1846)
- Dimensions
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Height: 68.40 centimetres
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Width: 13.50 centimetres
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Depth: 1.10 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Identification by British Museum Research Scientist Caroline Cartwright 2023
Acacia mearnsii, black wattle
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Description from Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878, p.83:
14. A boomerang, length 27 in. New South Wales.
Marked in ink: Sydney
N.S. Wales
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2009 20 Mar-23 Aug, Australian National Maritime Museum, Charles Darwin: voyages and ideas that shook the world
2023-2024 11 Sept - 5 May, Sydney, State Library of New South Wales, Mobilising Aboriginal Objects – Botany Bay, Sydney and the “affiliated coastal zone”
- Condition
- Reasonable.
Object frozen Sept. 2009
- Acquisition date
- 1846
- Acquisition notes
- Presented by Lieutenant Ince of HMS Fly
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1846,0809.14