Club

Museum number:
11-44089
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4741
Description:
Flat club, rounded. Shaped like an ear of corn. No carvings on handle. White pigmented triangle-shaped carvings decorate both sides of head; kite-shaped lines of triangles and across center.
Donor:
Dorothy Mark
Collection place:
South Pacific Islands
Verbatim coll. place:
South Pacific Islands
Culture or time period:
Oceanian cultures
Collector:
Robert M. Wales
Collection date:
1945
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Clubs (weapons)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
August 23, 2004
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
width 13 centimeters and length 46.5 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 11-44089, described as Flat club, rounded. Shaped like an ear of corn. No carvings on handle. White pigmented triangle-shaped carvings decorate both sides of head; kite-shaped lines of triangles and across center.

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