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1884.13.33

Ceremonial wood staff richly chip carved all over and tapering from the butt end to the tip.

1884.13.33

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ceremonial wood staff richly chip carved all over and tapering from the butt end to the tip.
Long description
Ceremonial wood staff richly chip carved all over and tapering from the butt end to the tip. The designs carved over the staff are geometric and divided into small abutting sections by incised parallel lines and bands. The whole design is continuous and extremely dense. At its tip the staff is undecorated, and the design is completed with parallel bands spaced approximately 85 mm inbound of the tip, with a further 15 mm gap between these and the rest of the carved decoration. [LKG 22/07/2010]
Date / Period
Date made: Possibly before 1877
Date collected
?Prior to 1877
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length: max 2835 mm, Diameter: max 46 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.13.33 PR Cat other PR nos: 3420
Research and responses

The British Museum has several objects from the Pacific from the R.G. Whitfield collection, acquired around 1872 so that might be the same source as this, see BM research database for more information, unfortunately at this time at any rate they had no biographical detail online [AP 10/7/2009]

Search terms: Ritual and Ceremonial, Status, Staff, Ceremonial Object