Club

Museum number:
11-39789
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2006
Description:
Sparring club of black ebony wood, incised linear patterns filled with white pigment; sword-shaped with truncated tip. Row of holes for tassels on end. 50 cm long, 6.4 cm wide. Used in informal fights, village brawls, arguments over gardens, pigs, women, sorcery, and breaches of etiquette; not used in formal warfare. Sometimes carried in mortuary ceremonies and annual feasts.
Donor:
Bronislaw Malinowski and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua Region
Verbatim coll. place:
New Guinea; Massim area att.
Culture or time period:
Massim
Collector:
Bronislaw Malinowski
Collection date:
1914-1920
Materials:
Ebony (wood)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Clubs (weapons)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
1965
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Club, accession number 11-39789, described as Sparring club of black ebony wood, incised linear patterns filled with white pigment; sword-shaped with truncated tip. Row of holes for tassels on end. 50 cm long, 6.4 cm wide. Used in informal fights, village brawls, arguments over gardens, pigs, women, sorcery, and breaches of etiquette; not used in formal warfare. Sometimes carried in mortuary ceremonies and annual feasts.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Club, accession number 11-39789, described as Sparring club of black ebony wood, incised linear patterns filled with white pigment; sword-shaped with truncated tip. Row of holes for tassels on end. 50 cm long, 6.4 cm wide. Used in informal fights, village brawls, arguments over gardens, pigs, women, sorcery, and breaches of etiquette; not used in formal warfare. Sometimes carried in mortuary ceremonies and annual feasts.

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