- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden barkcloth beater with plain cylindrical handle expanding into a large square-sectioned head which is grooved longitudinally on three faces. Between the head and handle is a carved zig-zag collar, bellow which is a dotted reticulated diamond pattern. [JC [OPS Move] 28/3/2017]
- Person
- Field collector William George Lawes
- Field collector London Missionary Society
- PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1872
- Date collected
- By 1872
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1886
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Grooved, Process Carved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Width: max 72 mm, Length: max 335 mm, Depth: max 68 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1887.1.571
- Research and responses
The George Rolleston Archive (Ashmolean Museum) has several letters from W.G. Lawes that were sent to George Rolleston, together with lists of objects sent to the University Museum by Lawes. Copies of these are now in the RDF. [AS 13/03/2012]
1887.1.571
Wooden barkcloth beater with plain cylindrical handle expanding into a large square-sectioned head which is grooved longitudinally on three faces. Between the head and handle is a carved zig-zag collar, bellow which is a dotted reticulated diamond pattern. [JC [OPS Move] 28/3/2017]
1887.1.571
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