boomerang
- Museum number
- Oc1939,08.51
- Description
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Boomerang made of wood. Biconvex in section with incised ornament on one side and flutings on the other.
- Production date
- 1914 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 63.20 centimetres
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Width: 10.50 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1939
Boomerang made of wood. Biconvex in section with incised ornament on one side and flutings on the other.
Collected by H P Rogers, ornithologist, before 1914, in Australia.
N. Queensland.
- 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
- Oc1939,08.51