Digging stick

An Australian aboriginal digging stick. It is pointed at both ends with one end thicker than the other. 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: AAA3771
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: 730 x 50 mm
Parts: Trophy of Aboriginal Implements (Trophy)
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