Digging stick

An Australian aboriginal digging stick, pointed at both ends, one end roughened and grooved. Collected by Sir John Franklin or his wife Jane, while he was governor of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania).

Object Details

ID: AAA3762
Type: Digging stick
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1837-1843; 1837-43
Credit: On loan to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, from the Hopton Hall Derbyshire Collection. Kindly lent by the Gell Muniment Trustees
Measurements: Overall: 635 x 25 mm
Parts: Trophy of Aboriginal Implements (Trophy)