- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wood club
- 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 Chip Carved
- Dimensions
- Length: max 943 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.12.159
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