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Aboriginal spear throwers
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Object Number 2004.24.30317
Display Title Aboriginal spear throwers
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Hunting
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Spear Thrower
Department Photographic
Date 1982
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Aborigine
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Queensland
Additional Geographic Terms Australia; Cape York
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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