Context (CMS Context)
Catalogue card 1 reads [stamped in black ink:] 'FIJI'. [typed:] 'Z-3071 Cub, throwing ""Ula ndriwa". The Knollys collection, bought Webster, London 1902.' [stamped in black ink:] 'THE VON HÜGEL COLLECTION'. [added in pencil:] 'Knollys was ADC to Sir A H Gordon, Governor of Fiji 1875-1880 and military adviser'. [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '6/33'. [stamped in blue ink in the bottom right corner:] 'SHOW CASE NUMBER 6'. [added in red ink:] 'Deposit Reg. corrected' [+ Colonel Hayter's signature]. A small round red sticker pasted to the front of the card.
Catalogue card 2 reads [handwritten in black ink:] 'Z.3071. Club, throwing "Ula ndriwa". The Knollys collection. Bought Webster, London 1902. Show Case number 6'. [added in pencil:] 'Knollys was ADC to Sir A. H. Gordon Governor of Fiji 1875-1880 and military adviser.' [in pencil in the bottom left corner:] '6/33'.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Throwing club.
Event Date 1/6/1996
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Deposit Register reads: 'D 1902.60. A throwing club, with smooth rounded head, the base of which is studded with three rows of white beads, a piece of whale's tooth + a human tooth. The grip is carved + the shaft beads a number of different tallies. Fiji Islands. Register Z-3071. 6/5/31. B. Webster 7541. Knowles Collection. L. 16".4. Baron A. von Hügel. 17.6.'
Event Date 3/12/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (CMS Context)
Labels & inscriptions: 'Z. 3071' inscribed in faded white ink on the shaft. '69' and '7541' [W. D. Webster number] inscribed in white ink on the shaft.
Event Date 11/7/2013
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
Throwing club of dark wood, I ula driwa. Ball-shaped head inlaid with three rows of very small white glass beads and two pieces of ivory (one looks human tooth-shaped). The handle is circular in section and flared towards the butt. The top of the handle is decorated with two rows of carved circular holes and a vertical line of circular holes running from the top to the centre of the handle. Most of the upper half of the handle is heavily carved with horizontal notches (possibly commemoration marks). The lower half of the handle is carved with tavatava patterns: 2 horizontal bands of zigzags, a long panel of vertical zigzags and a horizontal band of zigzags. Slightly concave butt chipped on one side and pierced with a circular hole on the other.
Event Date 11/7/2013
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: 'Chiefs & Governors: Art and power in Fiji', Cambridge MAA, 7 June 2013 - 19 April 2014.
Event Date 25/4/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

Conservation ()
CON.2014.152 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa