Club

Museum number:
11-39791
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2006
Description:
Sparring club of black, mahogany-like wood, incised linear patterns. Sword-shaped with truncated tip. Row of holes for tassels on end. Same style as 11-39794 and staffs 11-39850-55. 55 cm long, 10 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:
Wood (plant material)
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 11-39791, described as Sparring club of black, mahogany-like wood, incised linear patterns. Sword-shaped with truncated tip. Row of holes for tassels on end. Same style as 11-39794 and staffs 11-39850-55. 55 cm long, 10 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 11-39791, described as Sparring club of black, mahogany-like wood, incised linear patterns. Sword-shaped with truncated tip. Row of holes for tassels on end. Same style as 11-39794 and staffs 11-39850-55. 55 cm long, 10 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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