Alcheringa Images

Stone knife leilira, hafted, 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
1336-50
Material
Stone, wood, resin, bark sheath, plant fibre, clay
Measurements
Blade length 13 cm, width 4 cm, length with haft 26 cm, sheath length 21 cm
Source/publication/study
Kabo 1960; Kabo 1963; Barratt 1982