Maker: Unknown
Of hardwood, with a mixture of dark and light grain, formed in a crescent with a rounded finial engraved with cross hatched bands to help the user grip is, and widening slightly to the forward end
Given by Robert Taylor, MA
Length: 46 cm
Weight: 250 g
Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA
19th Century
Circa
1800
CE
-
1879
CE
Although throwing sticks, sometimes called boomerangs, are usually thought to be a weapon of Australia, they were used all over south-east Asia. It is also not true that they always returned to the thrower but were primarily intended as a projectile weapon. They were held vertically to be thrown.
Taylor described, ‘ vallories from Ramnad. Closely as they resemble the boomerang, they are not known to return to the thrower’. See Elgood 2004: 237; katariya is the Khol term from Gujerat, birudungi (often birra jungee) from Hyderabad and Madurai, and fig. 19.8, illustrating a group from Liverpool Museum; also Royal Armouries no. XXVIM.20.
Accession number: O.172-1879
Primary reference Number: 160096
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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