Context (References)
Cf. Robert Myers (1980). 'Archaeological Materials from Doninica in North American and European Musuems.' In Proceedings of the International Congress for the Study of Pre-Columbian Cultures in the Lesser Antilles, 473–80. Anthropological Research Paper no. 22. Tempe: Arizona State University,
Myers noted 'three walking sticks about 3 feet high covered with basket work from the Carib settlement; bought from the then Carib 'King' in 1897 by W. W. Skeat.'
The origin of this information is unknown

Available at https://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/AA/00/06/19/61/00240/8-39.pdf; acced 06/10/2023


Event Date 1980
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Card for 1937.1320 A-C notes 'Three walking sticks, covered with basketwork. Shafts completely covered by cane work. Longitudinal strands are pale, while the encircling ones are dark brown.
A: has no head piece. Some of the cane pattern is tan coloured.
B: has short, plain, wooden handle bent at right angles.
C: has a knob carved to resemble roughly a human face'
Event Date 25/1/1993
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Card for 1937.1320 A-C notes 'From a Carib settlement.'
Event Date 11/11/2020
Author: rachel hand

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.

Event Date 6/10/2023
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

Description (Physical description)
Wooden walking stick, wrapped in plaited basketry in contrasting light and dark brown/black linear bands forming diagonal patterns. No head or handle, possibly unfinished, with the basketry strips projecting above the top of the wood. Bound at top and base with twisted plant fibre cord or string.
Event Date 29/1/2025
Author: Rachel Hand