Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Wooden mallet with roughly oval head and flat at sides with lines cut in it running completely round for making barkcloth.'
Event Date 1920
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A wooden barkcloth beater with an oval shaped head and cylindrical shaft. The top of the head is carved into a slight point which is surrounded by small incisions; there are horizontal ridges around the edge of the head and small grooves on the bottom around the top of the shaft.
Event Date 5/1/2022
Author: Emily Shorter

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Roscoe Collection catalogued in 1920 was given numbers 1920.1 - 1920.480. These are not Accession Register numbers, and conflict with numbers allocated to other artefacts accessioned in 1920. They do not appear under any other number in any Accession Register and the only documentation for them is their catalogue cards. In 2001 they were given the temporary suffix ‘/Roscoe’ to distinguish them. This has now been replaced with the prefix ‘ROS’. 
Event Date 5/1/2022
Author: maa