Description (CMS Description)
Throwing stick with carved head and long pointed spike at one end. The stick is carved from dark, heavy wood. The long handle has clear, regular carved lines along its length. The head is carved with notches and other geometric patterns.
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Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
(Bio) (Collector) Fredrick John Afford Bateman was a doctor in Alice Springs periodically between 1955 -1959, where he worked both in the hospital there and as a flying medic.Richard Bateman, the collector’s son, in correspondence with CUMAA adds: ‘It was a practice that all weapons, shields, knives were left outside the ward [at the Alice Spring Hospital] and were often unclaimed after the patients left the hospital.’This object is one of a collection of four throwing sticks made during this period. Three have been given to the museum, of which two have been accessioned into the collections. Richard Bateman bequested one more to the CUMAA Handling Collection.
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Author: maa