Description (CMS Description)
A: Stone (?flint) knife with gum (?resin or pitch) handle. B: Cardboard and string sheath. The cardboard sheath is in poor condition and deteriorating, but is held together by twisted string in blue and brown (now faded).
Event Date
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.’
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Display)
'Exhibited: on display in Australia (15 & 16) case, Maudslay Hall, from 2005. R.vd.Velden 02/05/2014.'
Event Date 5/2014
Author: rachel hand