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Object Number 30-54-70/D3457.1
Display Title Grinding stone
Descriptions
Inventory Description Pounding stones, grinding stones, roughly spherical, smoothed
Classification
  • Tools
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Yolngu
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory / Arnhem Land
Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory
Additional Geographic Terms Northeast
Materials Stone
Dimensions Overall: 4.7 x 5.2 x 5.9 cm (1 7/8 x 2 1/16 x 2 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object D3457.1
Provenance
Collector W. Lloyd Warner (1929-1930)
Seller W. Lloyd Warner (1930)

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