Description (Labels & Markings)
Collector/donor's green paper label attached reads in black ink '18. Walking stick?'
Event Date
Author: Rachel Hand

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)
Wooden walking stick with a small knob on top.
Event Date 16/10/2008
Author: maa

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 walking stick with a small, asymmetric, globular head and a shaft formed from a knotted branch of wood.
Event Date 23/1/2023
Author: Lizzy Peneycad