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Boomerang: O.172a-1879

Object information

Awaiting location update

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown

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Description

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

Legal notes

Given by Robert Taylor, MA

Measurements and weight

Length: 47.5 cm
Weight: 140 g

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1879) by Taylor, Robert, MA

Dating

19th Century
Circa 1800 CE - 1879 CE

Note

Taylor’s printed list gives 171, ‘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.

Materials used in production

Hardwood

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 172
  • Method of creation: Inscribed
  • Type: Tag

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: O.172a-1879
Primary reference Number: 160097
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 12 January 2016 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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