Paddle

Museum number:
3-2947
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21030002947
Accession number:
Acc.620
Description:
War club, wood, maul-shaped, cut and carved from tree trunk; flat-topped conical segment at one end with tapered handle extending out of segment; hole drilled in center of handle; fiber carrier looped through hole; L 41.3 cm x diameter ( at top) 14.3 cm
Donor:
Edward W. Gifford and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Sonora, Mexico
Verbatim coll. place:
Sonora or Baja California, Lower Colorado river, Cocopa, Mexico
Collector:
Edward W. Gifford
Collection date:
December 1926
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Carvings (visual works)
Accession date:
1927
Department:
Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean area
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Paddle, accession number 3-2947, described as War club, wood, maul-shaped, cut and carved from tree trunk; flat-topped conical segment at one end with tapered handle extending out of segment; hole drilled in center of handle; fiber carrier looped through hole; L 41.3 cm x diameter ( at top) 14.3 cm

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