Spear-thrower

Museum number:
11-1513
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21110001513
Accession number:
Acc.574
Description:
Spear thrower (womerah)
Donor:
Mrs. L. F. Cockcroft
Collection place:
Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia
Culture or time period:
Aboriginal Australians
Collector:
P. G. Black
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), S1966-1967 #10: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (September 29, 1966–September 11, 1967), and S1968-1969 #117: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Nelson H.H. Graburn (May 6, 1969–May 6, 1969)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Spear-thrower, accession number 11-1513, described as Spear thrower (womerah)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Spear-thrower, accession number 11-1513, described as Spear thrower (womerah)

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