Photograph by Dr Rosita Henry
Accession Number: Oc.1933.0403.28
Museum: British Museum
Date Acquired: 1933
Collector: Derwent Vallance (1875-1960)
Date Collected: c.1905
Where from: Mulgrave
Description: L626 x W65mm. This appears to be a club with remnant natural pigments (ochres), but may have also been used as a clap stick. Singing was accompanied by a rhythmic beat created with the clap sticks tapped together, or with a boomerang.
See: ‘Derwent Vallance’ authored by Dr Rosita Henry
http://www.jcucollections.org/?page_id=1108
Contact: Dr Gaye Sculthorpe, Curator of Oceania
British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG, UK
Phone: +44 20 7323 8035