- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wood club with long cylindrical shaft. [JC [OPS Move] 06/09/2016]
- Long description
- Wood club with long cylindrical shaft and a ten-pointed star sectioned expansion with projecting knobs below the domed head. At the proximal end is an expanded, ovoid butt. [JC [OPS Move] 06/09/2016]
- Person
- Field collector Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville
- Field collector HMS Dart
- PRM source Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 12/1891?, uncertain
- Date collected
- Betwen June and December 1890 or between June and December 1891 ?
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1902
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 80 mm, Length: max 1065 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1902.21.6
- Research and responses
Somerville served on HMS Dart in a survey of the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) in 1890 and 1891 (in both cases from June to December). The material from Vanutu in this collection was, thus, presumably collected during this survey. See his ‘Notes on Some Islands of the New Hebrides’ (based on a paper entitled ‘Ethnological Notes on the New Hebrides’ read at the meeting of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland on 21 February 1893), in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. XXIII (1894), pp. 2–21, and ‘Ethnological Notes on New Hebrides’ (based on a paper entitled ‘Ethnological Notes on the New Hebrides’ read at the meeting of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland on 9 January 1894), in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, Vol. XXIII (1984), 363–93; see also his The Chart-Makers (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1928). [JC 26 2 2003]
1902.21.6
Wood club with long cylindrical shaft. [JC [OPS Move] 06/09/2016]
1902.21.6
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