Alcheringa Images

Spear-thrower

There is a spur at one end and a lump of resin, into which a stone chisel or adze was embedded (now fallen off), at the opposite end.

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Details

Collector/creator
Alexander Yashchenko
Time collected
1903
Location collected
Daniel Bay, South Australia. Presented to Yashchenko in Adelaide
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
921-42
Material
Wood, resin
Measurements
Length 73.5 cm, width max. 5.4 cm
Source/publication/study
Girshfeld 1953; Kabo 1960; Kabo 1963; Barratt 1982