- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden club with cylindrical shaft and pointed 'mushroom' head.
- Long description
- Wood club with cylindrical shaft and pointed mushroom head with eight irregular radiating lobes. The butt is slightly thickened and squared-off at the end. [JC [OPS Move] 16/09/2016]
- Geographical reference
- 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 760 mm, Width: max 180 mm, Depth: max 170 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.12.195 PR Cat other PR nos: 354
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