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Boomerang

Boomerang is an asymmetrically curved, one-sided convex wooden plate with triangular ends. Dark brown. Both surfaces are uneven. One half of the boomerang is noticeably wider than the other.

Details

Collector/creator
Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay
Time collected
Before 1886
Location collected
Australia
Transfer history
Russian Geographical Society, Saint Petersburg > >
Current museum
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
Time deposited to current museum
1891
Current museum number
402-287
Material
Wood
Measurements
Length 95 cm, width 5.8 cm, thickness 0.7 cm
Source/publication/study
Miklukho-Maklai 1999