Context (CMS Context)
There is no location and storage information for this number. It is possible that this item has since been found and allocated a new number and keyword.(Bio) Dr.L.Cobbet, noted as the late Dr Cobbet in the Annual Report
Event Date 25/1/2008
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Club - sword like shape. The handle is shaped like a human head. Hair, forehead, eyes, nose in conventional design. The shoulders are indicated but the trunk becomes a handle only. The blade flares towards the end. One [may read ‘once’] binding of native fibre.
Event Date 25/1/2008
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
From Dr Louis Cobbett, an English pathologist and University Lecturer in Bacteriology, 1907-1929.

The 1946-7 Annual report notes 'Cobbett, the late Dr L.: Large collection of archaeological and ethnological objects, mostly from Oceania and Africa, but including pottery vessels from Peru and Mexico'.

The register notes 'Cobbett Coll.' for 1947.270-275; 1947.279-301; 1947.407-8 and 'Cobbett bequest' for 1947.476- 485; 1947.620-625; 1947.638.
However, 1947.5- 18 is recorded as 'd.d. [donated] Dr L. Cobbett' suggesting some of the collection may have been gifted before his death in March 1947.

Records have been annotated to follow the details given in the register but the exact timing and status of the donation and whether it was gifted or bequested is not fully clear.
Event Date 23/10/2020
Author: rachel hand