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Object Number 11-2-70/83909
Display Title Boomerang, return type
Descriptions
Inventory Description Boomerang, carved wood, striated, curved, flattened, white accretions
Classification
  • Boomerang
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Queensland / Northern Queensland
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 57.9 x 5.5 x 1.1 cm (22 13/16 x 2 3/16 x 7/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 83909; N. Queensland / 1896
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth (1896)
Donor Donated by Dr. William McMichael Woodworth (1911)

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