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1910.59.13

Club with ovoid perforated stone head. The wooden shaft tapers to a slightly expanded point and is bound in a variety of plant fibres at the distal end, which secures the stone head. [BS [OPS Move] 17/08/2016]


1910.59.13

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Collection type
Object
Description
Club with ovoid perforated stone head. The wooden shaft tapers to a slightly expanded point and is bound in a variety of plant fibres at the distal end, which secures the stone head. [BS [OPS Move] 17/08/2016]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1910
Date collected
By 1910
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1910
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Material Wood Plant, Material Plant Fibre, Process Carved, Process Bound
Dimensions
Length: max 1420 mm, Diameter: max 70 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1910.59.13 Other numbers: 1910.ß.12 - 17
Associated publications
Illustrated in colour (along with 1910.59.12, 1910.59.14, and 1910.59.15) on pages 10-11 of 'Dauncey's Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford' (a PDF downloadable from the Plymouth Museum website 'Papua New Guinea in Plymouth', at http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/dauncey_collection_prm.pdf) with the caption: 'The four clubs below have finely worked stone heads, each attached to a wooden shaft with plant-fibre bindings. One has a star-shaped head [1910.59.12], one has a disc-shaped head [1910.59.14] and two have oval heads [1910.59.13, 1910.59.15].' [FB 10/04/2013; JC 28 1 2015]

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