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Object Number 51-32-70/3499
Display Title Churinga
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carving, wood stick, flat, rounded ends, incised circular designs, both sides
Classification
  • Carving
  • Shaft, modified
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Kukatja
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Northern Territory
Additional Geographic Terms Central
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 37.2 x 1.1 x 5.1 cm (14 5/8 x 7/16 x 2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 51-32-70/3499; Central Australia / Kukatja Tr.
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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