Context (CMS Context)
(Bio): Sir Robert Foster (collector); Dr. C. White (donor)
Event Date 27/6/2006
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Wooden staff with pearl-shell inlay on the upper four sides of the staff. The top of the staff has a human figure sitting on a chair.
Event Date 27/6/2006
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Foster was High Commissioner of the Western Pacific 1964-68 then Governor of Fiji. On Fiji's independence in 1970, he became of Governor-General. The walking stick was recorded as Fijian when donated but is typically Somonon Islands style in design and materials. Probably collected when High Commissioner
Event Date 13/10/2013
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: On loan to 2 Temple Place, London, 30 January - 27 April 2014, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 26 May- 27 July 2014, as part of the UCM exhibition, Discoveries: Art, Science and Imagination. Returned 4 August 2014.
Event Date 6/8/2014
Author: Remke van der Velden

Conservation ()
CON.2013.103 |
Event Date 1/3/2016
Author: maa