Item consists of a stone blade and a handle made from a thin, split tree trunk, bent in two and covering the thickened end of the blade, to which it is attached with a resinous composition (Triodia resin). Presented to Yashchenko in Adelaide
Sensitive images hidden
Details
- Collector/creator
- Alexander Yashchenko
- Time collected
- 1903
- Location collected
- Warumungu people, Tennant Creek, Central 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
- 921-20
- Material
- Stone, wood, resin
- Measurements
- Blade length 13 cm, width 9.5 cm, butt thickness 2.5 cm, length of the two parts of the handle 28 и 30.5 cm.
- Source/publication/study
- Kabo 1960; Kabo 1963; Barratt 1982