(Barnumbir) Stick Or Challenge-Spear
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: "THREE-FOURTHS OF STICK IS WRAPPED WITH CORDAGE. AT INTERVALS OF FIVE INCHES BUNDLES OF WHITE COCKATOO FEATHERS, ABOVE THS STRANDS OF HUMAN HAIR CORDAGE WITH FEATHERS ATTACHED BY WAX. THESE ARE SEPARATED BY BANDS OF WHITE, BLACK, AND RED PAINTED BANDS OVER THE CORDAGE."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 22 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Milingimbi Island (Yurruwi), Arnhem Land / Crocodile Islands, Northern Territory, Australia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 178294
label: USNM Number
content: E387550-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Spear
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 135 cm
label: Depth - Object
content: 1.91 cm