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1886.1.1474.2

Staff or paddle of dark brown, heavy wood. [BS [OPS Move] 05/10/2016]

1886.1.1474.2

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Collection type
Object
Description
Staff or paddle of dark brown, heavy wood. [BS [OPS Move] 05/10/2016]
Long description
Staff or paddle of dark brown, heavy wood. The handle part, or about two thirds of the whole length cylindrical, the other third gradually widening and thinning out to the end which is semicircular and having all the edges keeled or sharp. [BS [OPS Move] 05/10/2016]
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1878
Date collected
By 1878
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1886
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions
Width: max 95 mm, Length: max 2825 mm, Depth: max 33 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.1.1474.2 Other numbers: 3 1461
Research and responses

* There is a note in the Ramsden collectors volume stating 'Retrospective numbers written in pencil down left hand column June 1975 E.S.G. Collated with A.M. but considerable problems encountered. All Ramsden seem to be in A.M. Note that this exercise may have been the source of the confusion that occurred during Elizabeth Sandford Gunn's work on the Ashmolean collection with regard to numbers. In some instances, these numbers SEEM to have been used to number the objects (wrongly). [AP 13/7/99]

Search terms: Insignia, Weapon, Staff

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