mace club

Cylindrical shaped head, in stone, with 7 spikes. Mounted on a wooden shaft, topped with basket-work and red and green feathers.

Macgregor, William Sir

Early: 1850 Late: 1899

Macgregor, William Sir

stone wood vegetable.fibre basketry feathers

Melanesia Papua.New.Guinea

Four charm boxes, silver with semi-precious stones Tibet, 19th century or earlier Cradle made by Willie Barron of Mintlaw (pre 1880). During the Bronze Age a new style of individual burial appeared, the body being either interred in a stone-lined cist, or, as a cremation, contained in an urn. Usually objects, including beakers or food-vessels, and other objects relating to the status of the person, accompanied the body. At Borrowstone, Kingswells, Newhills, Aberdeenshire, a sandy knoll was found to contain six cists dating from the Bronze Age. Each cist held a skeleton and a beaker, but in cist 5, with an adult male skeleton, was a particularly rich assemblage of grave goods, probably belonging to an archer. The flint assemblage from the cist is made from Buchan flint, pale grey to pale orange in colour. Six very fine arrowheads, one Green Low and six Conygar Hill type, all newly made, dominate the assemblage. There are also two unmodified blade knives, two retouched blade knives, a small flake, a worn round scraper and quartz. The grave goods indicate that this is an archer's grave. The arrowheads are very finely and, probably, specially made, and the beaker is of a type often found in archer's graves. Among the furniture of a house in the 18th or 19th century would be a cradle. It would often have been handed down within the family, and mothers were proud of how many many babies would have slept in it. This rocking crib is made from pine embellished with a panelled front, and the hood is made from a single curved board. There are two knobs on the front, and there would have been two more on the other side. Wool was tied around these and over the baby to prevent it from falling out of the cradle, and could be pulled to rock it. The cradle comes from Darnabo Farm, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, and was made by Mr William Barron, Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, about 1860 - 1880.