M0018562EB: Pair of pointing bones and pointing stick, Central Australia

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Pair of pointing bones and pointing stick, Central Australia.

Photograph of a pair of pointing bones joined with hair string, from the Kaytetye people, and a pointing stick in wood cut to represent a miniature spear and shield, from the Arrernte people, Central Australia. The items were purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1935 and accessioned in 1936 (accession numbers R6134/1936 and R6136/1936). They were included in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952 and published in Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commomwealth. Related images: M0018562EA, M0018562EC

1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: R6134/1936 and R6136/1936. Wellcome also holds the exhibition publication.

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.