Description (Labels & Markings)
The collector/donor's large green paper label still attached, reads in black ink '19. Knobkerrie'.
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Field collection)
Miss Joyce Baker is the daughter of Reverend H. J. Baker who was a Methodist missionary to the Mashona tribe in the early twentieth century, (1904-1919), in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe.
Event Date 1919
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Knobkerrie. Large walking stick with a big knob.
Event Date 16/10/2008
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
A knobkerrie is a club weapon so it is unclear why this is described as a walking stick. It could be that it served a double purpose.
Event Date 6/10/2015
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (Amendments / updates)
The 'Methodist Who's Who' (n.d. ?1912/1913) notes Rev. H. J. Baker as Herbert John Baker, a pioneer missionary in Rhodesia, who worked at the Matabeleland Gold Mines, as Master of the Public School, Selukwe and then in Mashonaland.
The material was all identified as Mashona on entry to the Museum but may also have been been acquired in Matabeleland or Selukwe, now known as Shurugwi.
Event Date 15/4/2019
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Wooden knobkerrie with a large globular head and a cylindrical shaft, formed from a knotted branch of wood.
Event Date 23/1/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad