Boomerang

Museum number:

11-2095

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Accession number:

Acc.638

Description:

Boomerang.

Donor:

William Lloyd Warner

Collection place:

Northeast Arnhem Land, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory

Culture or time period:

Aboriginal Australians

Collector:

William Lloyd Warner

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Boomerangs

Function:

1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control

Accession date:

1929

Department:

Oceania

Loans:

S1961-1962 #54: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/George A. Pettitt (March 20, 1962–March 21, 1962), S1961-1962 #56: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/John Desmond Clark (March 27, 1962–March 27, 1962), S1962-1963 #50: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/George A. Pettitt (March 27, 1963–March 27, 1963), 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), and S1968-1969 #117: Department of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)/Nelson H.H. Graburn (May 6, 1969–May 6, 1969)

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