- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden club, four-sided, binding & streamers of cotton yarn trimmed with feather tassels. Thought to be used for war. [ASh [OPS move] 19/05/2016]
- Cultural groups
- Macusi
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1941
- Date collected
- By 1941
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 03/1941
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Bird Feather, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 70 mm, Width: max 110 mm, Length: max 274 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1941.3.98
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