Australian Museum Journal An Aboriginal knife
- Shortform:
- Etheridge, 1902, Rec. Aust. Mus. 4(5): 207–208
- Author(s):
- Etheridge, R.
- Year published:
- 1902
- Title:
- An Aboriginal knife
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 5
- Start page:
- 207
- End page:
- 208
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.4.1902.1097
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plate xxxvi
- Date published:
- 06 January 1902
- Cover date:
- 06 January 1902
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURE: INDIGENOUS
- Digitized:
- 07 November 2008
- Available online:
- 19 December 2008
- Reference number:
- 1097
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (90kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (363kb PDF)
Abstract
The subject of Plate xxxvi. has been figured as a "Shark's tooth flaying knife." Edge-Partington gives an illustration of one, with this explanation, but without locality. His figure represents a wooden implement fourteen and a quarter inches long, oval in section, bearing five shark's teeth, set in gum-cement, along one edge at the distal end. The proximal end is wrapped with cord, doubtless, also, gum-cement fastened.