Carved Animal "Bandicoot"
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: "CYLINDRICAL BODY, FOUR SHORT LEGS AND POINTED HEAD AND TAIL. BODY PAINTED WITH PANELS OF CROSS-HATCHED LINES AND DASHES, BOTTOM RED, HEAD AND TAIL YELLOW. (SAME WOOD AS 387497)." Formerly on exhibit in NHB Hall 8, case 16, where it was identified as an echidna.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Feb 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, 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: E387498-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 44.4 cm
label: Diameter - Object
content: 10 cm