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). Listed in an 1855 inventory of his possessions.
Object Details
| ID: | AAA3770 |
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| Type: | Digging stick |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Date made: | 1837-1843 |
| 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: 615 x 25 mm |
| Parts: | Trophy of Aboriginal Implements (Trophy) |