1886.1.1475

Collection type

Object

Description

Glaive club with wide-angled curved blade. It has a cylindrical shaft extending into the flat blade, both surfaces of which are decorated with a conventionalised fish figure, consisting of a raised central rib terminating in a 'W' shape. The tip of the blade curves into a slight lip. At the base of the shaft is an oblong, conical shape followed by a double collar and the elongated butt, tapering to a point. [BS [OPS Move] 15/08/2016]

Geographical reference

Solomon Islands

Oceania > Melanesia > Solomon Islands

Person

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Date / Period

Date made: On or before 1869

Date collected

?On or before 1869

Acquisition information

Transferred: 10/02/1886

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Process Carved

Dimensions

Width: max 515 mm, Depth: max 30 mm, Length: max 1415 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.1.1475

Research and responses

Reference to PR objects is to 1884.12.238 - 268 [AP 18/2/99] Ashmolean letter book [page 1] 'Catalogue of Curiosities from the Figi [sic] or Cannibal Islands' is described by Arthur MacGregor of the Ashmolean as 'Ashmolean Museum, AMS ** (1) 1867, Three loose sheets 225 x 185 mm pasted into Museum letter book ... purchased in 1867, from an old Resident among the Savages' represent on the last extensive acquisitions of ethnographic specimens by the Ashmolean prior to the transfer of all such material to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1886. Many of the specimens are described in greater detail ... [in the vellum volume]. The present list represents the primary record of these items within the Ashmolean's collections. [Title] 'Catalogue of Curiosities and Very Old Carved War clubs &c &c and Collected at the Figi or Cannibal Islands by an old Resident among the Savages'.' [quoted from A. Macgregor etc 'Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, 1683 - 1886' [2000?] [AP 8/5/2000]

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