- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden ball-headed club. It has a plain cylindrical shaft which expands into the blackened spherical head. [JC [OPS Move] 12/10/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Kwanyama
- Person
- Field collector Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Field collector Diana Powell-Cotton
- PRM source Antoinette Powell-Cotton
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1937
- Date collected
- 1936 - 1937
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1941
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Resin Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 95 mm, Length: max 665 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1941.12.122 Other numbers: 37.976
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