Spear-thrower

Museum number:

11-1458

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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)

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