spear thrower
- Museum number
- Oc1847,0413.11
- Description
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Spear-thrower of wood, the peg consists of a wallaby(?) tooth secured with fibre binding. The handle is roughly circular in section.
- Production date
- 19thC(early) (before 1847)
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.40 centimetres
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Width: 3.50 centimetres
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Depth: 67.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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The entry for this collection in the 'Extracts from the British and Medieval Register 1757-1878', p.87, states: '1 - 16. Presented by the Revd Augustus Strong. From Port Philip, New South Wales'. Rather than describing the specific locality from where the objects were acquired,‘Port Philip [sic]’ is a reference to Port Phillip, to the general name which the British settlement in Victoria was known by in the 1840s.
This object is likely to have been collected by Strong when he was based at the ‘St Marys’ cattle station on the Hopkins River, near Warrnambool, in the Western District of Victoria, between February 1842 and March 1844. (Elizabeth Willis pers. com.)
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Registration slip description:
Another Womera or throwing stick, 2 ft 2 ¼ in.
From Port Philip, New South Wales
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Marked in pencil:
Dup. B.M.
Port Philip
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1847
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1847,0413.11