Club

Tools

Museum number:: 11-42964
Permalink:: ark:/21549/hm21110042964
Accession number:: Acc.3784
Object count:: 1
Description:: Club, wooden spatulate club with four crossbars between handle and blade; diamond-shaped biconvex blade is flattened on the edges; carved decoration on each face; length 75.5 cm
Donor:: Frances McReynolds Smith
Collection place:: Samoa
Culture or time period:: Samoan
Object type:: ethnography
Object class:: Clubs (weapons)
Function:: 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Department:: Oceania