Throwing club. Pointed and swollen at the distal end, slightly tapered and squared off at the proximal end. The wood is drilled at some intervals along the length. [BS [OPS Move] 13/09/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Throwing club. Pointed and swollen at the distal end, slightly tapered and squared off at the proximal end. The wood is drilled at some intervals along the length. [BS [OPS Move] 13/09/2016]
Geographical reference: Vanuatu
Oceania > Melanesia > Vanuatu; Makura
Person: Field collector Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville; Field collector HMS Dart; PRM source Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville
Date / Period: Date made: Before 12/1891
Date collected: Between June and December 1890 or between June and December 1891
Acquisition information: Loaned: 02/1893 Donated: 03/1893
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Drilled
Dimensions: Diameter: max 45 mm, Length: max 645 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1893.27.24
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 in this collection was, thus, presuambly 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]

Search terms: Weapon, Club

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