Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1934.635 A-B: 'A: Small black highly polished wooden club. B: Small hexagonal club made of red wood.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1934.635 A-B 'A: Highly polished wooden club. Lighter wood shows through dark staining in some patches. Tapered, with hole at narrower end, perhaps for attaching handle. Head-end is flat.
B: Polished wooden club, roughly hexagonal in section. Flat at both ends, one of which is polished.'
Event Date
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (References)
Whiffen, Thomas William. 1915. The North West Amazons. London: Constable and Co. See p. 116, Plate XXX, fig.7.
Event Date 1915
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Amendments / updates)
Local term for object is taken from Whiffen, 1915, pp.299-301.
Event Date 1915
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Acquired by MAA in April 1934.
Event Date 4/1934
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
For further information see T. Cotterill's research notes (UCMAA archive reference number W19/1/4), which includes: references to Whiffen's notes on each object type with additional notes; a survey of similar objects from the same ethic groups in the collections of other British museums, cross-referenced with each object; general notes on the Whiffen collection and a historical introduction to the region in which Whiffen collected, with a bibliography; a brief biography of the collector together with correspondence with the Whiffen family; cross-references to Whiffen photographs.
Event Date 01/06/1997
Author: Lucie Carreau

Context (Related Documents)
The MAA Photograph Collections contain approximately 100 images made on the same expedition, many of which depict the same types of objects in use.
Event Date 1/6/1997
Author: Lucie Carreau

Description (Physical description)
Polished wooden club with a hexagonal cross-section and flat terminals. One terminal has been polished and slightly angled. Shallow and deep notches on several of the sides.
Event Date 29/7/2021
Author: Sam Daisley