staff
- Museum number
- Oc1939,08.49
- Description
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Staff made of wood. Biconvex in section and forked at one end with painted decoration in yellow, white and red.
- Production date
- 1900-1912 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 74.50 centimetres
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Width: 5.50 centimetres
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Depth: 2.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1939
Staff made of wood. Biconvex in section and forked at one end with painted decoration in yellow, white and red.
Collected by H P Rogers, ornithologist, before 1914, in Australia.
Northern Territory.
"Laralara = swordfish. Yiritata moiety, Gunwingu tribe, western Arnhem Land" - M.K. Kupka.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Acquisition notes
- Register reads, for collection Oc1939,08: Collected by H P Rogers, ornithologist, before 1914, in Australia. However inspection of the original correspondence from Mathews reveals that this should be J P Rogers, who was Mathews' ornithological collector in Northern Australia.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc1939,08.49