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Object Number 51-32-70/3401
Display Title Boomerang
Descriptions
Inventory Description Boomerang, carved wood, curved, tapered ends, knot hole on one side
Classification
  • Boomerang
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / South Australia / <County> / <City> / Cooper Creek
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 95 x 6.5 x 1.9 cm (37 3/8 x 2 9/16 x 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 51-32-70/3401; A32049 / Cooper Creek / S. Aus type.
Provenance
Expedition Peabody Museum South Australian Expedition (06/26/1951)
Collector N.B. Tindale
Collector Dr. Joseph B. Birdsell

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