Club

Museum number:
11-40800
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Accession number:
Acc.2519
Description:
Club- pointed, carved handle, on grip area crisscross roughening; carved pattern of zigzag and loops; head of club pointed with one side diagonally cut; brown stained; used in hunting of birds and other mammals (i.e. when animal has been disabled possibly by spear, it is then clubbed); also used in fighting.
Donor:
Daniel L. Adler
Collection place:
Western Australia
Culture or time period:
Aboriginal Australians
Collector:
Bruce D. Lawes and Daniel L. Adler
Collection date:
before 1969
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Clubs (weapons)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing
Accession date:
1969
Department:
Oceania
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 11-40800, described as Club- pointed, carved handle, on grip area crisscross roughening; carved pattern of zigzag and loops; head of club pointed with one side diagonally cut; brown stained; used in hunting of birds and other mammals (i.e. when animal has been disabled possibly by spear, it is then clubbed); also used in fighting.

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