Walking stick or club
- Museum number:
- 11-39830
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21110039830
- Accession number:
- Acc.2006
- Description:
- Sparring club/ walking stick/ swagger stick of black wood decorated with incised patterns on upper end. 97.5 cm length
- Donor:
- Bronislaw Malinowski and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Massim region, Papua Region, Papua New Guinea
- Culture or time period:
- Massim
- Collector:
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- Collection date:
- 1914-1920
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Walking sticks (costume accesories) and Walking sticks (personal equipment)
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- 1965
- Department:
- Oceania
- Images:
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