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Throwing Stick

MOA: University of British Columbia

2990/803

Wooden throwing stick with animal bone handle in the form of a duck and bone pin on opposite end. Gut and cotton threads binding around duck decoration. Bone pin has a band of incised lines near acute point and flat base. Cracked and worn.

  • Type of Item throwing stick
  • Culture Paracas
  • Material wood, bone, cotton fibre, intestine
  • Measurements height 2.0 cm, width 52.9 cm, depth 5.3 cm (overall)
  • Previous Owner Alan R. Sawyer, Erika H. Sawyer
  • Received from Erika H. Sawyer
  • Made in Ocucaje
  • Creation Date between 101 BCE and 800
  • Collection Date between 1950 and 1975
  • Ownership Date before January 15, 2013
  • Acquisition Date on January 15, 2013
  • Condition fair
  • Accession Number 2990/0803

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