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1898.75.12

Cylindrical wooden club with longitudinal grooves. Rounded at one end and pointed at the other.

1898.75.12

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Collection type
Object
Description
Cylindrical wooden club with longitudinal grooves. Rounded at one end and pointed at the other.
Long description
Cylindrical wooden club with longitudinal grooves running along the length of the shaft. Rounded at one end and pointed at the other. Red pigment is visible in the grooves and there are markings in pale yellow pigment near to each end.
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1898
Date collected
By 1898
Acquisition information
Purchased: 1898
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Grooved, Process Carved, Material Pigment
Dimensions
Diameter: max 37 mm, Length: max 845 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1898.75.12
Research and responses

Related Documents File - Handwritten inventory and pricelist of, presumably, all the objects sold to the Pitt Rivers Museum. [MOB 9/10/2001]

Associated publications
Illustrated in black and white as figure 54 on page 48 of Australia in Oxford, edited by Howard Morphy and Elizabeth Edwards (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Monograph 4, 1988). The caption reads: 'W. AUSTRALIA - HAMERSLEY. Club or throwing-stick. Collected by and purchased from E. Clement. 1898.75.12'. [JC 1995; JMC 10/11/2025]

Search terms: Weapon, Club

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