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Spear-thrower "Throwing stick"

Throwing stick, wooden, flattened - the same as 736-269, but decorated with an inset linear pattern of triangles. Traces of resin on both ends of the stick.

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Details

Collector/creator
Stepan Scott
Time collected
Before 1808
Location collected
Australia
Transfer history
Admiralty Museum, Saint Petersburg, 1808 > >
Current museum
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint Petersburg
Time deposited to current museum
1828
Current museum number
736-271
Material
Wood, traces of resin
Measurements
Length 83.5 cm, width 2.6 cm, stick thickness 1 cm
Source/publication/study
MAE inventory book with Petri notes; Belkov 2015