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Object Number 51-32-70/3262
Display Title Churinga
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ornament, carved wood, flat, tapered ends, incised designs
Classification
  • Shaft, modified
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Aranda
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory / <County> / Alice Springs
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 43 x 6.2 x 2.3 cm (16 15/16 x 2 7/16 x 7/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 51-32-70/3262 / Alice Springs / Central Australia
Provenance
Expedition Peabody Museum South Australian Expedition (6/26/1951)
Collector N.B. Tindale (1951)
Collector Dr. Joseph B. Birdsell (1951)

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