- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stylus
- Long description
- Stylus has a broad, flat, semi-circular plate at the top with a small hole drilled on one side. The stylus tapers down into a narrow rod which broadens towards the end before ending in a sharp point.
- 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
- Prior to 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Iron Metal
- Dimensions
- Length x Width 211 x 68 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.98.62
- Associated publications
- Reproduced in colour as figure 6 on page 156 (catalogue number 65; see page 204) of Cultures of the Indian Ocean (Lisbon: Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1998). [JC 8 9 1999]
1884.98.62
Stylus
1884.98.62
Digital asset copyright: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
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