Description (CMS Description)
Curved wooden carrying-tray with regular, parallel carved lines along its length. The tray is coloured all over with a faint red ?ochre with traces of white pigment on both sides. The inside has remains of pigments, dust and white accretions, possibly mould.
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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.’
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Author: maa