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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number IPSMG:R.1925.54 Institution name Ipswich Collections Object name Tjuringa Description Tjurunga (also spelled Churinga) made of wood. Flat, light wood, rounded at one end and pointed at the other. A hole drilled into one end with a circle bored around it. Pattern on face shows 6 sets of concentric squares. On reverse he beginnings of three circles as decoration, unfinished. Stuck-on label: 'Letter stick or similar(?) West Australia (N.W.) A Bell'. Registration number marked on in black ink: '1925.54' and in pencil at the pointed end incorrectly '1928-54'. Collected by the missionary Rev V.N. Sherwin of the Forest River Mission at the request of Mr Alfred Bell. Production place Australia, Western, Kimberley, Cambridge Gulf Production period 19th Century, late, 20th Century, early Material wood Dimensions length: 25.00 cm Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

IPSMG:R.1925.54
Institution name

Ipswich Collections
Object name

Tjuringa
Description

Tjurunga (also spelled Churinga) made of wood. Flat, light wood, rounded at one end and pointed at the other. A hole drilled into one end with a circle bored around it. Pattern on face shows 6 sets of concentric squares. On reverse he beginnings of three circles as decoration, unfinished. Stuck-on label: 'Letter stick or similar(?) West Australia (N.W.) A Bell'. Registration number marked on in black ink: '1925.54' and in pencil at the pointed end incorrectly '1928-54'. Collected by the missionary Rev V.N. Sherwin of the Forest River Mission at the request of Mr Alfred Bell.
Production place

Australia, Western, Kimberley, Cambridge Gulf
Production period

19th Century, late, 20th Century, early
Material

wood
Dimensions

Details