- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden club, pagamagun. [BS [OPS Move] 10/10/2016]
- Long description
- Wooden club, pagamagun, with ball head standing at right angles to the flat shaft of which the edges are scolloped down to the narrow handle which terminates in a scolloped wheel. The shaft is decorated with incised birds, arrows, geometric designs and lines following the scalloped edges. [BS [OPS Move] 10/10/2016]
- 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, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 660 mm, Width: max 160 mm, Depth: max 93 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.12.33 PR Cat other PR nos: 394
Search terms: Weapon, Club, Bird Figure
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