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Cutting implement - glass fragments bound to stick with tree gum
Cutting implement - glass fragments bound to stick with tree gum
Object Number 80-22-70/22476
Display Title Cutting implement - glass fragments bound to stick with tree gum
Descriptions
Object Description Cutting implement - glass fragments bound to stick with tree gum
Inventory Description Knife, cylindrical wooden stick, handle tapered, jagged thin greenish-brown glass fragments adhered to stick at head, glass adhered with dried black resin
Classification
  • Mechanical
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Australia / Western Australia / <County> / <City> / King George Sound
Additional Geographic Terms King George Sound
Materials Wood , Glass , Resin
Dimensions Overall: 43.5 × 2.9 × 1.7 cm (17 1/8 × 1 1/8 × 11/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 22.476
Provenance
Collector Prof. Liversedge
Donor Donated by Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins (1880)

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