Mace Of Office
date: label: Accession Date
content: 23 May 1941
name: label: Donor Name
content: Miss Mary E. Maxwell
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "With tiger figured head. The hollow column, tapering, at the distal end from 2" dia. to 4" dia. at the curved proximal end, has some resemblance in decorative motif to the columns of the Palace of Asoka in India. - Dr. E. Knez. However the incised figures appear very similar to those of Persia and it was the judgment of Dr. Richard Ettinghausen (Freer) that the column was from this part of the East but that the feline head which is partly held on by a wood block inserted in the column is of Indian origin and that it was not a part of the original. 9/1962".
label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: A fine gilded copper Chub, or mace of office, carried by high ranking officers. Often these were made from ivory with similar tigers face ends. This example is gilded copper, and may therefore be of more southern manufacture, in the Deccan.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Sep 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: India, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 160028
label: USNM Number
content: E381904-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Mace