Club

Museum number:
16-9524
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21160009524
Accession number:
Acc.1428
Description:
Man's hardwood war club. Long narrow blade expands toward the bifurcated end. Incised geometric designs on the blade. Handle wrapped with orange, green, white, red, and blue commercial cloth strips and black and white strings, 120 cms length. The Woven strap attached to the handle has x and diamond designs in white and black with red borders; the strap doubled; circa 27 cm in length. Shipibo, Peru.
Donor:
Michael J. Harner and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Imiria Cocha (lake) Rio Tamaya, tributary of Rio Ucayali, Peru
Verbatim coll. place:
Peru
Culture or time period:
Shipibo-Conibo
Collector:
Michael J. Harner
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Clubs (weapons)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
July 12, 1961
Department:
South America (except Ancient Peru)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 16-9524, described as Man's hardwood war club. Long narrow blade expands toward the bifurcated end. Incised geometric designs on the blade. Handle wrapped with orange, green, white, red, and blue commercial cloth strips and black and white strings, 120 cms length. The Woven strap attached to the handle has x and diamond designs in white and black with red borders; the strap doubled; circa 27 cm in length. Shipibo, Peru.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 16-9524, described as Man's hardwood war club. Long narrow blade expands toward the bifurcated end. Incised geometric designs on the blade. Handle wrapped with orange, green, white, red, and blue commercial cloth strips and black and white strings, 120 cms length. The Woven strap attached to the handle has x and diamond designs in white and black with red borders; the strap doubled; circa 27 cm in length. Shipibo, Peru.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 16-9524, described as Man's hardwood war club. Long narrow blade expands toward the bifurcated end. Incised geometric designs on the blade. Handle wrapped with orange, green, white, red, and blue commercial cloth strips and black and white strings, 120 cms length. The Woven strap attached to the handle has x and diamond designs in white and black with red borders; the strap doubled; circa 27 cm in length. Shipibo, Peru.

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