Description (CMS Description)
Register notes for 1903.16-20: ' five boomerangs; one plain, one wide flat, sharply bent with both faces grooved and three bearing incised patterns on their convex faces, one of which is unusually large (L43") (?boomerang?)'
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Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Transcribed from register as object was not included on the database.
(Bio) Gilbert.J.Walker, M.A.
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Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card E 1903.16 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘D. Gilbert J. Walker, M.A. R.1903.623’; [later addition handwritten in blue ballpoint:] The 3 in 1903.623 has been overwritten with a 4. 1904.623 seems to correspond with the annual report. [later addition handwritten in red ink:] ‘MJ 20/10/21’. Red circular sticker lower right corner of catalogue card.
Event Date 17/12/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (CMS Description)
Catalogue card E 1903.16 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘E. Australia. Upper Georgina Dist. 1903.16. Boomerang’.; [later addition handwritten in black ink:] ‘A county of New South Wales, Bathurst Goulburn district’.; [later addition handwritten in pencil:] ‘A good example of the “return” or “come back” type, used for hunting.’
Event Date 17/12/2012
Author: maa