- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Club consisting of a stone covered with hide - stitched and reaching down wood handle. [ASh [OPS move] 26/05/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Mount Kenya Embu or Aberdare Mountains Rongai
- Person
- Field collector Frederick John Jackson
- PRM source Ipswich Museum
- PRM source Patricia Margaret Maclaren Butler
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1906, uncertain Date made: Before 1916, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1906 or 1916
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1966
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Wood Plant, Process Covered, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Length 526 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1966.1.202
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