Wooden staff
- Museum number:
- 5-13209
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050013209
- Accession number:
- Acc.2006
- Description:
- Club, dark-brown wooden knob kerrie club; parallel carved flutings extend around knob; tapered handle. Length: 76.5 cm; diameter: 9 cm.
- Donor:
- Bronislaw Malinowski and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Southern Africa
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Southeastern Africa
- Collector:
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- Collection date:
- 1914-1920
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material) (carved)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Carvings (visual works)
- Function:
- 1.1 Hunting and Fishing
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Context of use:
- Carried by men in everyday activities; used in herding, small-game hunting, incidentally for defense, and to suspend bundles.
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Dimensions:
- overall— length 76.5 centimeters and overall— diameter 9 centimeters
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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