Description (Labels & Markings)
A label glued to one of the catalogue cards reads: 'E.1907.578. Ceremonial chief's mace. Solomon Islands. (Bt Stevens, London. May 1907). Professor Bevan, 1907'. 'Z 10826' written on the object in black ink.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Production / use)
Note from Accession register: '... most probably from the islands of Mala (Malaita) stated to be used by the chief in giving the last blow to a body (living or dead) prior to it being cooked. Probably used in that manner making a religious offering to the god or gods.'
Event Date 1907
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Auction / Sale)
Listed in Stevens London Catalogue for 8 May 1907, Lot 127 as a fishing float.
Event Date 08/05/1907
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Display)
Exhibited: National Gallery, Washington, 1979.
Event Date 1979
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Display)
Exhibited in 'The Proper Study of Mankind: Great Anthropological Collections in Cambridge' (known at MAA as the 'Centenary Exhibition') at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 12 March - 06 May 1984.
Event Date 12/3/1984
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (CMS Description)
On catalogue card for E 1907.578: 'Chief's mace' and [added later:] 'with globular stone head encased in ornamented wicker-work, has the entire facetted, taper shaft and handle encrusted with variously shaped plaques of nautilus shell.
Event Date 13/8/2015
Author: maa

Context (References)
Illustrated in Lucie Carreau. 2016. Collections from the Solomon Islands. Cambridge: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.13275, p.66.
Event Date 2016
Author: Lucie Carreau