1886.1.1481

Collection type

Object

Description

Spatulate wooden club with pointed tip and central ridge. Oval in section, the shaft tapers to the butt which restricts to a further tapered 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 1867, uncertain

Date collected

?On or before 1867

Acquisition information

Transferred: 10/02/1886

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Polished

Dimensions

Length: max 1185 mm, Depth: max 20 mm, Width: max 80 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1886.1.1481

Research and responses

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]

Search terms: Weapon, Hunting, Club, Hunting accessory