Club
- Museum number:
- 11-39808
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110039808
- Accession number:
- Acc.2006
- Description:
- Sparring club of black ebony wood (Diospyros species), sawtoothed blade, designs (incised) incompleted. 60.8 cm long, 8.5 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:
- Massim region, Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
- Culture or time period:
- Massim
- Collector:
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- Collection date:
- 1914-1920
- Materials:
- Ebony (wood)
- Taxon:
- Diospyros
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Clubs (weapons)
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Department:
- Oceania
- Loans:
- S1985-1986 #47: Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale Univ.) (April 1, 1986–July 31, 1986), S1985-1986 #48: Jagiellonian University, Poland (October 1, 1986–March 31, 1987), S1985-1986 #49: Warsaw Museum of Asia and the Pacific (1987–1987), and S1985-1986 #9: Arizona State Museum (September 20, 1985–February 7, 1986)
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