Alcheringa Images

Piece of root from the tree Hakea leucoptera or H. lorea (Needlebush)

Tree with water-storing roots; the item was provided by Aborigines for Yashenko.

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Details

Collector/creator
Alexander Yashchenko
Time collected
1903
Location collected
Killalpaninna Mission station, South Australia
Transfer history
Russian Geographical Society, Saint Petersburg > >
Current museum
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
Time deposited to current museum
1905
Current museum number
921-88
Material
Plant root
Measurements
Length 24 cm, diameter 4.5 cm.
Source/publication/study
Kabo 1960; Barratt 1982