Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1886.67.13 reads [handwritten in blue ballpoint:] ‘1886 67 (13) Australia. N-W. Australia. Spear-thrower (L. 0.57m). Shaft is oval in shape, broad (0.12m), tapering to point at distal end, where a peg of wood is fixed into mass of resin. At the proximal end, shaft tapers gradually to form a handle at end of which is lump of resin. Incised decoration on one side.’

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Register reads for 1886.67.1-36 reads ' Nine spears and darts (one with stone and two with bone points), thirteen spear throwers of various forms, five boomerangs, four clubs, four shields, one bamboo horn'
(Bib) See Spencer 1922, fig. 97
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card E 1886.67.13 reads [handwritten in blue ballpoint:] ‘Brunel 1886 O.I.20 (1). See Spencer 1922 Fig 97.’ Red circular sticker lower right corner of catalogue card.
Event Date 5/11/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card E 1886.67.10-22 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘E. Australia. 1886.67, (10-22). Thirteen spear-throwers.’;
D. * H.M. Brunel Esq. AR. 1886.67, (10-22).’ The Annual Report for 1886, p.3 reads ‘In those cases in which the objects have not been presented directly, but have been purchased with money subscribed to the Museum Accession Fund, an asterisk is prefixed to the name of the donor.’
[Later addition handwritten in pencil:] ‘16/1/79 I found 11 spear throwers given by Brunel in 1886; 5 of them have been Z-ed i.e. Z 1357, Z 1360, Z 1361, Z 1361, Z 1363 = Z 1364. Individual cards have been made for each spear thrower. All the objects have O.I. numbers on them, p.t.o.’;
[Continued handwritten in pencil on back of card:] ‘The nos should be as follows.
√ O.I.18 - Z 1360 = 1886 67 (10)
√ O.I.19 (1) - Z 1364 = 1886 67 (11)
√ O.I.19 (2) - Z 1363 = 1886 67 (12)
√ O.I.20 (1) - - = 1886 67 (13)
O.I.20 (2) - - = 1886 67 (14)
O.I.20 (3) - - = 1886 67 (15)
O.I.21 (1) - - = 1886 67 (16)
√ O.I.21 (2) - Z 1361 = 1886 67 (17)
O.I.22 - - = 1886 67 (18)
O.I.23 - - = 1886 67 (19)
O.I.24 (2) - Z 1357 = 1886 67 (21)
Separate cards have been made.’
[Later addition handwritten in pencil on front of card:] ‘16/1/79 Not 1886 67, 20 + 22’.

Event Date 5/11/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (Amendments / updates)
Possibly Southern Australia due to the asymmetrical resin handle.
Coppe wire removed from object suggesting a previous display history.
From notes by Alistair Paterson, University of Western Australia, 14/6/2108

Event Date 14/6/2018
Author: rachel hand