Death-pointer, consisting of dark polished stick pointed at either end

Made:: 1860-1920

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Death-pointer
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Death-pointer, consisting of dark polished stick pointed at either end, from Western Australia, 1860-1920

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A221399

Materials:: wood

type:: pointing sticks

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