- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Club of yellow and dark wood with cylindrical shaft and large ball head. At the butt is a small brass cap, just above this the shaft is perforated. [JC [OPS Move] 13/10/2016]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1874
- Date collected
- ?By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Brass Metal, Process Carved, Process Polished, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Length: max 685 mm, Diameter: max 85 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.12.27 PR Cat other PR nos: 368
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