Club

Museum number:
11-44082
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21110044082
Accession number:
Acc.4741
Description:
Club, head has eight protrusions with woven string on center top, handle is covered with basketry and red string. Woven string stems from the top of club, between the protrusions and through hole at base of club head/top of handle.
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:
String (fiber product) (wood, fiber, string) and Wood (plant material) (wood, fiber, string)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Clubs (weapons)
Function:
1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Accession date:
August 23, 2004
Department:
Oceania
Dimensions:
width 19 centimeters, Protrusions— length 4.5 centimeters, Base— width 3.5 centimeters, and length 43 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Club, accession number 11-44082, described as Club, head has eight protrusions with woven string on center top, handle is covered with basketry and red string. Woven string stems from the top of club, between the protrusions and through hole at base of club head/top of handle.

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