Club
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
1935
Materials
Wood
Measurements
490 mm (Length)75 mm (W)
Place of origin
Namibia
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303779
Summary
One of three Ondongwa knobkerries or clubs with Lord Egerton's number 374B, 374C, 390C. Weighted solid wooden heads with wooden shafts. Made of Tambuti wood. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall.
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in South West Africa (now Namibia) in 1935.
Marks and inscriptions
Associated label. The Ondongwa natives fight with a knobkerrie and a knife, using the knobkerrie rather as does a shielded native use his shield. They can also throw them very accurately and kill guinea fowl with them.