Taiaha

Museum number:

11-43914

Permalink:

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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:

length 119 centimeters and width 6 centimeters