Spear-thrower

Museum number:
11-1458
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.572
Description:
A chinaingoo spear thrower, Northern Territory
Donor:
Mrs. Guy Sawyer Dyer
Collection place:
Northern Territory, Australia
Culture or time period:
Aboriginal Australians
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Woomeras (spear-throwers)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1921
Department:
Oceania
Loans:
S1964-1965 #34b: University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia) (November 25, 1964–March 25, 1966), S1964-1965 #72: Heard Museum (March 25, 1965–September 24, 1965), S1965-1966 #66: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/George A. Pettitt (February 25, 1966–February 25, 1966), S1966-1967 #102: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (May 3, 1967–May 3, 1967), S1966-1967 #106: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (May 9, 1967–May 9, 1967), S1967-1968 #61: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/James Nelson Anderson (November 17, 1967–November 17, 1967), and S1971-1972 #4: Department of Anthropology (Stanford Univ.)/Robert L. Hoover (July 12, 1971–July 26, 1971)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spear-thrower, accession number 11-1458, described as A chinaingoo spear thrower, Northern Territory
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear-thrower, accession number 11-1458, described as A chinaingoo spear thrower, Northern Territory

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