Alcheringa Images

Stone knife and bark sheath

Presented to Yashchenko in Adelaide.

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Details

Collector/creator
Baldwin Spencer
Time collected
Before 1908
Location collected
Warumungu people, Tennant Creek, Central Australia
Transfer history
National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne > >
Current museum
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
Time deposited to current museum
1908
Current museum number
1336-51
Material
Stone, resin, opossum fur, emu feathers
Measurements
Blade length 13.5 cm, width 4.5 cm, length with haft 21 cm, sheath length 23 cm
Source/publication/study
Kabo photo comments; Kabo 1960; Kabo 1963; Barratt 1982