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Length - Object:
81 cm
Width - Object:
51 cm
Object Type:
Mat
Place:
Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) (near), Gallery Hill (Unbalanja/Injalak Hill), Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia
Accession Date:
2 May 1949
Notes:
FROM CARD: "THIS PRESENTLY INCOMPLETE AND FRAGMENTARY PIECE OF MATTING WHICH WAS WITH A BURIAL FROM THE ABOVE LOCATION, IS MADE OF THICK SOFT REEDS ACROSS THE SHORT WAY, WOVEN TOGETHER ACROSS THE LONG WAY WITH SMALLER REEDS IN A SPACED TWILLED TWINING. COLOR NOW A DIRTY BROWN."
This is presumably from one of the cave sites on Gallery Hill (Unbalanja/Injalak Hill) that Frank McCarthy and Frank Setzler worked in. See also A419640 - A419647.
