- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wood club. Blade head is made of two separate blades in the shape of fish with incised and inlaid shell decoration. The lower handle features two carved human figures back to back. Incised decoration on the head features zig zag designs and a stylised bird near the mouth of the carved fish. [BS [OPS Move] 26/07/2016]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1874
- Date collected
- By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Shell, Process Carved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 1020 mm, Width: max 230 mm, Depth: max 25 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.12.255
1884.12.255
Wood club. Blade head is made of two separate blades in the shape of fish with incised and inlaid shell decoration. The lower handle features two carved human figures back to back. Incised decoration on the head features zig zag designs and a stylised bird near the mouth of the carved fish. [BS [OPS Move] 26/07/2016]
1884.12.255
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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