Description (CMS Description)
Walking sticks, made of very heavy wood, with inlaid rings of white, black and brown. A: has a slightly curved, dark (?ebony) head, with a hole pierced through it. B: has a metal head set at slight angle to shaft
Event Date 25/1/1993
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Donated by Walter William Skeat and noted only as West Indies, but probably collected by his younger brother, Arthur Percival Skeat, J.P., Crown Surveyor, and planter from Londonderry, Dominica. He laid out the boundaries of the Carib reserve in Dominica in 1902.
Walter Skeat also gave Dominican material collected by his brother to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1898.
Event Date 11/11/2020
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
A walking stick made of very heavy wood, inlaid with rings of different woods interspersed with bands of white bone. With a slightly curved, dark wood, possibly ebony, handle. This is pieced in centre and inlaid with a bone ring on each side.
Event Date 5/9/2022
Author: rachel hand

Context (Amendments / updates)
It is likely that the items in the series 1937.1320-2325 are also from the Carib settlement in Dominica but the register entry is left blank after the initial entry of 'West Indies' for 1937.1320.
Event Date 29/1/2025
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Amendments / updates)
The term Carib has been updated to include Kalinago in the Cultural Group field
Event Date 29/1/2025
Author: Rachel Hand