- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Club (stone head missing). The shaft is broadly cylindrical with natural knots in the wood producing knobs along its length. [BS [OPS Move] 12/08/2016]
- 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, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 30 mm, Length: max 920 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1910.59.17 Other numbers: 1910.ß.12 - 17
- Research and responses
There is a photograph of 2 clubs from the Plymouth Museum collection in the Photos Archive (1998.186.15 .3), which may be of this object. [CF 15/5/2001]
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