club
- Museum number
- Oc1929,0204.8
- Description
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Club (used in a game) made of wood.
- Production date
- 1929 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 41.60 centimetres
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Width: 4.70 centimetres
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Depth: 4.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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1929 register - information in observations column:
2-13 "Used in a game".
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Notes from Ian Coates from the National Museum of Australia Nov 2012: This is one of twelve clubs, Oc1929,0204.2 to 13, sent to the British Museum by Jessie Litchfield in November 1928. She described them as follows:
‘I am sending, under separate cover, several nulla-nullas, called “boomerangs” by the tribes of Melville Island… The nulla-nullas are thrown along the ground, somewhat after the manner of a cricket-ball; and a skilful thrower will make them skip in a wonderful manner. Eight of them form a set; I have sent twelve, one set of pointed ones, and four odd ones. The paint is merely put on for corroboree occasions.’
‘These nulla-nullas seem peculiar to the Melville Island natives; I have never seen mainland … [Aboriginal people] … using them…’
( JS Litchfield to the ‘The Curator’, British Museum, 12 November 1928 – letter from the BM Dept of Africa, Oceania and the Americas Correspondence Archive.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1929,0204.8