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Object Number 61-8-70/3935
Display Title Sali (Wooden war club)
Descriptions
Inventory Description Club, carved, flaring spiked head, perforated design, curved shaft
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1931
Culture
  • Fijian
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Additional Geographic Terms Hawaiian Islands
Materials Wood, Tapa
Dimensions Overall: 101.8 x 29.9 x 5.8 cm (40 1/16 x 11 3/4 x 2 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 61-8-70/3935
Credit Line Gift of the Museum of Science, Boston, 1961
Provenance
Collector James Hunnewell (1900-1931)
Donor Museum of Science, Boston (October, 1953 - Feb. 14, 1961)
Donor William P. Hunnewell (October, 1953)

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