Playing stick

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Item X 13090 Throwing stick. South Australia, 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 section at one end.

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Object/Medium

Throwing stick
Maker

Unknown
Locality

South Australia, Australia
Date Produced

c.1900
Collector

Sir Walter B. Spencer
Object Measurements

910 mm (Length), 30 mm (Width), 40 mm (Height)
Keywords

Game
Collection Names

Baldwin Spencer 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 13090 Throwing stick. South Australia, Australia. c.1900

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Physical Description

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Locality

Date Produced

Collector

Object Measurements

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Collection Names

Type of item

Discipline

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