- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wood club with curved and pointed blade. [JC [OPS Move] 17/10/2016]
- Long description
- Wood club with curved and pointed blade. The shaft, which is oval in section, expands into the flattened blade which curves 90 degrees and extends to a point. The outer edge of the blade is a right angle. The bottom of the shaft is decorated with engraved zigzags within longitudinal grooves and there is an expanded and tiered conical butt. [JC [OPS Move] 17/10/2016]
- 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 1862
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Grooved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 695 mm, Width: max 280 mm, Depth: max 40 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.12.59 Other numbers: 160 PR Cat other PR nos: 160
- Research and responses
The number listed in Delivery Catalogue II for this object (160) matches the 1862 Catalogue of Arms. [Dan Hicks 12/09/2012]
1884.12.59
Wood club with curved and pointed blade. [JC [OPS Move] 17/10/2016]
1884.12.59
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