Mallet
Category
Ethnographic material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood
Measurements
310 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Kenya
Collection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1303913
Summary
One of three wooden bark cloth mallets with cylindrical heads heavily incised with ridges. Collected Kenya 1930's. See photographs in Kenya album showing mallets in use. Lord Egerton investigated the commercial potential of bark cloth in the 1930's. Part of Lord Egerton's collection of ethnographic objects once displayed in the Tenants' Hall
Provenance
Collected by Lord Egerton in the 1930's