Context (Amendments / updates)
Catalogue card recorded 'R. 1903.626' but corrected later (date and author unknown) as 'R. 1904.626'. This refers to the record in the 19th annual report and the correction was to reflect the year of publishing.
Event Date
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Amendments / updates)
Accession register annotated '19 is Queensland- Roth 1898, fig. 354-8'. Date and author unknown.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card handwritten in black ink reads, 'Boomerang.'. Annotated in a different hand in blue ball point pen 'New South Wales' and '(see Roth 1898 figs 354-8'. A third annotation in pencil '?Queensland'. Annotation dates and authors unknown.
Event Date 1903
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Accession register for 1903.16-20 reads, 'Five boomerangs: one plain, one wide flat, sharply bent, with both faces grooved and three bearing an incised patterns on their convex faces, one of which is unusually large (l. 43"). (?boomerang?)'. Source recorded as 'Gilbert T. Walker, MA' and dated '[1903] May/03'.
Event Date 3/5/1903
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
The 19th annual report (1904) reads, '623—627. Five boomerangs of various forms: three (one unusually large, 1. 43") bear incised patterns on their convex faces [...]'.
Event Date 21/4/1904
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card annotated in red ball point pen 'MJ 20/10/21. Red circular sticker lower right corner of catalogue card.
Event Date 18/12/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (Physical description)
Boomerang. Of dark-coloured wood in a slight curve, with one side flat and smooth, and the other with carved patterns of crosses and curved parallel lines. Both ends pointed.
Event Date 15/4/2025
Author: Guey-Mei Hsu