Boomerang
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1858
label: Collection Date
content: 1839 to 1840
name: label: Donor Name
content: United States Exploring Expedition
notes: label: Notes
content: FLAT, SLIGHTLY CURVED WOODEN BOOMERANG WITH A PROTRUDING ROUNDED SECTION AT ONE END, AND INCISED DECORATION AT THE OTHER. THE INCISING CONSISTS OF SEVERAL PARALLEL LINES AND A CURVILINEAR DESIGN. HAS ORIGINAL PEALE TAG. PUBLICATION: DISCUSSED AND ILLUSTRATED IN THE "NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION, 1838-1842, VOL. 2, PP. 190-193 http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21946692, AND P. 238, http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21946740. LENT TO THE NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, 2/12/1976, RETURNED 8/18/1978. EXHIBITED MAGNIFICENT VOYAGERS, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, 1985-86.
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "5634 ORIG. NO. ?546. 5634 LOANED: NASM. 2-12-1976." FROM CARD: "LOANED: NASM. 2-12-1976. RETURNED FROM NASM 8/18/78."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: New South Wales (not certain), Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aboriginal Australian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 66A00050
label: USNM Number
content: E5634-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Boomerang
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 68 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 11.5 cm