Plaything, Australia, Desert East

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Item X 10556 Throwing stick. Arrernte. Desert East, Australia. c.1900

Summary

This stick is used in a game of skill, being thrown across the flat ground and the one whose stick travels the furthest is the winner.

Physical Description

A very thin throwing stick with a bulbous head.

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Object/Medium

Throwing stick
Maker

Unknown
Cultural Groups

Arrernte
Locality

Desert East, Australia
Date Produced

c.1900
Collector

Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer & Francis James Gillen
Date Collected

1901 - 1902
Object Measurements

1010 mm (Length), 70 mm (Width), 25 mm (Height)
Keywords

Game
Collection Names

Spencer and Gillen Collection
Type of item

Object
Discipline

Anthropology
Category

First Peoples
Collecting Areas

Central and Western and South Australian Ethnographic

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Item X 10556 Throwing stick. Arrernte. Desert East, Australia. c.1900

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