- 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]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Henry (Harry) Moore Dauncey
- Field collector London Missionary Society
- PRM source Curator of the Plymouth City Art Gallery and Museum
- PRM source Thomas Vere Hodgson
- 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]
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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