Description (CMS Description)
Two boomerangs, and one boomerang like weapon, ending in a hook
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Transcribed from register as object was not included on the database.
(Bio) Edward Charles Stirling, Esq. M.D [later Sir], Katherine River, June 1891

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Catalogue card E 1892.31.3 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘E. Australia. Catherine River. 1892.31, (3). Boomerang-like weapon.’; [later addition handwritten in pencil:] ‘”A boomerang like weapon ending in a hook like projection” via accession list. The label on boomerang gives 1906 Br. Jolley. It is doubtful whether it is the correct one MJ 11.11.21’.; [later addition handwritten in blue ballpoint:] ‘Hooked, non returning. This type of boomerang comes from Central + Northern Australia.’


Event Date 5/11/2012
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Catalogue card E 1892.31.1-2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘E. Australia. 1892.31.(1,2). Two Boomerangs.’; [later addition handwritten in pencil:] ‘Have marked 2 1892-31 (1, 2) but it is open to doubt whether they are the correct ones. Whereas they are marked 1892 Capt. Oliver, these appear to be associated with [arrow towards Stirling] MJ. 11/11/21’.
Event Date 5/11/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card E 1892.31.3 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘D. E.C. Stirling, M.D. R.1892.47, (4).’; [later addition handwritten in black ballpoint:] ‘appendix III’. Red circular sticker lower right corner of catalogue card.
Event Date 5/11/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card E 1892.31.1-2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] ‘D. E.C. Stirling, M.D. R.1892.47, (3).’; [later addition handwritten in red ink:] ‘√ 11.11.21 MJ’.; [later addition handwritten in black ballpoint:] ‘appendix III’.; .; [later addition handwritten in pencil:] ‘9/1/79 I could see absolutely no reason for giving this number’ [continued on back of card:] ‘to 2 objects given by Cpt. Oliver in 1892, so have Z-ed these 2 boomerangs.’

[Later addition handwritten in pencil on back of card:] ‘There is a wooden boomerang, with hooked end which has been displayed in the Maudslay Hall from 1990. It is labelled in the case as E 1892.31.2, but may be E 1892.31 B (having simply been mislabelled). A. McKeating 1993.’

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