Spear Thrower
Aurukun
Middle Paman
West Cape York
Cape York Peninsula
Queensland
Australia
about 1960
Wood, shell, beeswax, seeds, spinefex gum
Overall: 3 3/8 × 33 5/16 × 7/8 in. (8.5 × 84.6 × 2.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Kenneth and Sara Hale in memory of Robert Locke Hale, Class of 1931, and Floyd Orlin Hale, Class of 1903
996.44.30334
Geography
Place Made: Australia, Oceania
Period
20th century
Object Name
Armament
Research Area
Oceania
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 16, ANTH 50, Australian Aborigional Art, Howard Morphy, Fall 2012
Provenance
Collected in Australia by Sarah Whitaker Hale (1932-2011) and Kenneth Locke Hale (1934-2001), 1960; given to present collection, 1996.
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