pointing stick
- Museum number
- Oc1933,1010.5
- Description
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Pointing stick made of bone, blood.
- Production date
- 1933 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.20 centimetres
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Width: 2.50 centimetres
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Depth: 9.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- 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
- Oc1933,1010.5