Description (CMS Description)
Weapon with one paddle-shaped and one forked end. Object made from one piece of dark wood, covered in red ?ochre pigment. The paddle-shaped end is painted with cross-hatching, dots and linear designs in red, black, yellow and white. The forked end shows traces of red, yellow and white pigment.
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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 two throwing sticks made during this period. Both have been accessioned into the CUMAA collections.
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Author: maa