pointing stick
- Museum number
- Oc1933,1010.2
- Description
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Pointing stick of human bone (?).
- Production date
- 1933 (before)
- Dimensions
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Length: 8.90 centimetres
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Width: 2.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Original registration record reads: ‘Brought from ranges on border of South & West Australia; said to be from a killed and eaten man; given to collector by Kallagiri [or Kaltagiri?] (killed by a train)’
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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
- 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
- Oc1933,1010.2
