Context (References)
University of Cambridge Museum of General and Local Archaeology and of Ethnology (1914) Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Antiquarian Committee to the Senate and Lists of Accessions for the Years 1910, 1911, 1912. (Reprinted, with corrections, from the Cambridge University Reporter)
Event Date 1914
Author: Flo Sutton

Context (Field collection)
Collected by Ivor Hugh Norman Evans in in the Kota Belud [known at the time as Tempassuk] and Tuaran Districts, Sabah [known at the time as British North Borneo], Borneo, Malaysia, 1910-1911.
'A collection of two hundred and thirty-four selected objects illustrative of the dress, ornaments, weapons, implements, utensils, currency, charms, etc., of the Dusun, lllanun, and Bajaw tribes collected by the donor in the Tempassuk and Tuaran Districts, British North Borneo, 1910 and 1911’ (1914)
Event Date 1914
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
This object comprises one of seven decorative figures from the fences of graves at Kampong Piasau and Nabok. A: spear head. B: working knife ("parang'). C: fighting sword ("parang ilang"). D: cock. E: bird, perhaps a hornbill or a duck. F: ?snake. G: squirrel
Event Date 26/9/1994
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Sculpture; grave decoration. Wooden carving in the form of a cockerel, with an incision for the beak opening, a raised comb, a notch for the eye and a bumped section on the top of the tail. There are two brass loops screwed into the side of the object.
Event Date 27/10/2022
Author: Flo Sutton