Staff

Museum number:

11-44097

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Accession number:

Acc.4741

Description:

Wooden staff with rectangular head with leaf-shaped carvings on both sides filled with white pigment. Staff bows out as a possible gripping aid and has triangular carvings with white pigment, running around the edges. On each of four sides below this are two rectangular-shaped carvings of triangles with white pigment.

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:

Carvings (visual works) and Ceremonial staffs

Function:

1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control

Accession date:

August 23, 2004

Department:

Oceania

Dimensions:

Rectangle— width 4.5 centimeters, Staff— length 90.5 centimeters, and Rectangle— length 13.25 centimeters