Wooden throwing stick - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 73640 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 104.00 OLEACEAE Olea europaea | Entry Book Number | 15.1996 | |
| Artefact Name | Wooden throwing stick | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Oman | TDWG Region | Oman | ||
| Parts Held | Wooden throwing stick | Geography Description | Oman, Asia-Temperate, Arabian Peninsula | ||
| Uses | Wooden throwing stickUse: MATERIALS - Wood User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Wood | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Donor No | ||||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | ||||
| Collector | Jones R | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | 00/00/1996 | |||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Replica of an akeet (throwing stick) - not exact size. A hard, close grained wood which sinks in water. Further information found in Plants of Dhofar p216. Miller AG, and Morris M, 1988, for methods of making. The stick is carried and used by the Qarra, tribesmen of the jebel in Dhofar, Omans Southern Province in Southern Arabia. Donated by Roddy Jones. | ||||