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Spear-thrower "Throwing stick"

Throwing stick, wooden, flattened, with one end pointed and the other widened. There are traces of resin on the pointed end. The stick is oval in cross-section. Painted brown, polished. Has glued label "Throwing sticks from New Zealand".

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Details

Collector/creator
Stepan Scott
Time collected
Before 1808
Location collected
Australia
Transfer history
Admiralty Museum, Saint Petersburg, 1808 > >
Current museum
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
Time deposited to current museum
1828
Current museum number
736-269
Material
Wood, traces of resin
Measurements
Length 94 cm, width oat the ends 4 cm and 0.5 cm
Source/publication/study
MAE inventory book with Petri notes; Belkov 2015; Korsun 2013