Alcheringa Images

Stone knife and sheath

Presented to Yashchenko in Adelaide.

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
921-21
Material
Stone, wood, resin, bark, fur
Measurements
Overall length 25.5 cm; length of blade 13.5 cm, width max. 4.5 cm, length of handle 12 cm, width 5.5 cm, length of sheath 20 cm, width 5 cm.
Source/publication/study
Kabo 1960; Kabo 1963; Barratt 1982