pointing stick
- Museum number
- Oc1933,1010.1
- Description
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Pointing stick of human bone (?).
- Production date
- 1933 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 15 centimetres
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Width: 1.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Original registration record reads: 'Called Miri darrga, brought to OOLDEN [sic - OOLDEA] in 1932; formerly belonged to MUNJINJA WONGGA group. Said to be the bone of an saten[?] man. given to collector by Ardana.'
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Non-composite object. Unverified human remains. Modified human remains? No record of research. Repatriation claim received 2001.
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Ethdoc 906b includes a five page typescript about the twelve objects [1933,1010.1-12] collected by Bates, given to Mee and then donated to the British Museum.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1972-1982 23 Jun-28 Feb, London, BM, Museum of Mankind, The Aborigines of Australia
- Acquisition date
- 1933
- Acquisition notes
- Mee wrote the introduction to Bates' popular book, 'The Passing of the Aborigines'.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1933,1010.1
