Spatulate wood club. The blade is decorated on both faces with four longitudinal bands of an incised broken loop design surrounded by a border of triangles, all filled in with a white pigment. There is a rounded projection for the tip. At the base of the handle is a triangular butt, carved decoratively on one side. [JC [OPS Move] 04/08/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spatulate wood club. The blade is decorated on both faces with four longitudinal bands of an incised broken loop design surrounded by a border of triangles, all filled in with a white pigment. There is a rounded projection for the tip. At the base of the handle is a triangular butt, carved decoratively on one side. [JC [OPS Move] 04/08/2016]
Geographical reference: Papua New Guinea
Oceania > Melanesia > Papua New Guinea; Indonesia
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Indonesia; West Papua
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Owen Stanley; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1884
Date collected: August 1849
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Palm Wood Plant, Material Wood Plant, Material Lime, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 700 mm, Width: max 95 mm, Depth: max 20 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.64.33 Other numbers: blue 373 PR Cat other PR nos: 1718
Research and responses: It is also potentially possible that this item was actually field collected by Thomas Henry Huxley who was on the Rattlesnake voyage but the Stanley route seems much more likely. [AP 08/06/2011]

Search terms: Weapon, Club

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