Clap-Sticks
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 May 1949
name: label: Donor Name
content: American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "UNUSUAL SPECIMENS. THEY ARE ACTUALLY NON-RETURNING AND HOOKED BOOMERANGS MADE SOUTH OF THE ROPER RIVER BUT TRADED TO SOME NATIVES AROUND THE ROPER RIVER AND THEN BROUGHT ACROSS TO THE C.M.S. MISSION STATION ON THE ANGAROKO RIVER. WHEN THE MISSION NATIVES CAME TO UMBAKUMBA THEY CARRIED THESE WITH THEM AND USED THEM AS CLAP STICKS TO KEEP THE RHYTHM OF THE DANCE, WITH NO THOUGHT OF USING THEM AS WEAPONS. THE BOOMERANG SEEMS TO BE UNKNOWN AS A WEAPON IN ARNHEM LAND."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Mar 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Groote Eylandt / Umbakumba, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 178294
label: USNM Number
content: E387420-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Clap Stick
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 66 cm
label: Length - Object
content: 66.67 cm