Taiaha
- Museum number:
- 11-43914
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110043914
- Alternate number:
- 4 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.4428
- Description:
- Club, top, two faces back to back with abalone shell inlaid eyes (one missing) and high hat with engraved curvilinear design; brown hardwood; length 119 cm; maximum width 6 cm.
- Donor:
- Joan Wescott
- Collection place:
- Polynesia
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Polynesia, Maori
- Culture or time period:
- Maori
- Collector:
- Joan Wescott
- Materials:
- Abalone shell, Shell (animal material), and Wood (plant material)
- Taxon:
- Haliotis
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Taiahas
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- July 25, 1989
- Department:
- Oceania
- Dimensions:
- width 6 centimeters and length 119 centimeters