Wooden tray containing samples of adhesives and stone tools
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- Type
- Samples
- Place
- Northern Territory, Australia
- Collection
- Stan Mitchell collection
- Accession number
- 1985.0101.2448
Description
Shallow black wooden tray containing objects selected by collector, Stan Mitchell. The contents comprises six samples of adhesive (three samples in small cardboard trays), six stone flakes, one stone tool with a wooden handle (a scraper) made by the collector, Stan Mitchell. There are three labels with handwritten text in ink, the one centre front of the tray reads "Mastics / Porcupine Grass / Xanthorea / Bees Wax", the interior (loose) "Bees wax used for / mounting spears and axes / Northern Territory", the interior small cardboard tray with flakes (loose) reads "Scrapers used / by Aistons natives / [in another hand] showing wear only".
Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 6:08:00 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2025-02-23. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.