- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pointed stick. Dark wood, one end is carved to a point and the stick tapers at the other end. [FB 14/11/2013]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- Other owner Johann Friedrich Gustav Umlauff, Hamburg
- PRM source William Downing Webster
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1897
- Date collected
- By 1897
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1897
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1073 mm, Diameter: max 11 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1897.65.3 Other numbers: 348
- Research and responses
According to the stock book of dealer William Downing Webster, this object was purchased by him from ‘Umlauff, Hamburg’ on 15th March 1897 and sold to the ‘Oxford University Museum’ on 5th April 1897. Johann Friedrich Gustav Umlauff founded an ethnographic dealership in Hamburg which operated from 1868 to 1974. The business records are now in the Völkerkundemuseum in Hamburg. [JMC 16/01/2024]
1897.65.3
Pointed stick. Dark wood, one end is carved to a point and the stick tapers at the other end. [FB 14/11/2013]
1897.65.3
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
If you wish to order a high-resolution image and/or licence its use for print or web publication, exhibition, film, promotional product or any other use, whether in the academic or commercial sector of any print run, then please visit photographic services.