Club

Museum number:

11-736

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Accession number:

Acc.18

Description:

Flat wooden club, carved

Donor:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Collection place:

New Guinea, Melanesia

Verbatim coll. place:

New Guinea

Culture or time period:

New Guinea, Papua Island

Collector:

Phoebe Apperson Hearst

Materials:

Wood (plant material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Clubs (weapons)

Function:

1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control

Accession date:

November 26, 1901

Department:

Oceania

Loans:

S1957-1960 [XXX Wellington]: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (1957–1960), S1958-1959 #4: Winfield Scott Wellington (April 3, 1959–unknown), and S1966-1967 #68: Design Department (UC Berkeley)/Lucretia Nelson (February 3, 1967–February 20, 1967)

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