- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Cylindrical wood club, pointed at both ends. [JC [OPS Move] 14/10/2016]
- Long description
- Cylindrical wood club, pointed at both ends. The shaft swells at the head where there is an expanded cylindrical area which is carved with rows of slightly projecting knobs. The grip has been roughened. [JC [OPS Move] 14/10/2016]
- 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 730 mm, Diameter: max 50 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.12.49 PR Cat other PR nos: 409 ? 408
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