Pointing bone. Length of sharpened bone with length of twisted hair attached to use with lumps of pitch gum, w/ string, used in witchcraft
Donor:
R. D. J. Weathersbee
Collection place:
South Australia
Culture or time period:
Aboriginal Australians
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Awls
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1962
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1966-1967 #94: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (April 18, 1967–April 18, 1967) and S1967-1968 #87: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (February 2, 1968–February 5, 1968)