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Object Number 05-7-10/65618
Display Title Seal club
Descriptions
Inventory Description Club, carved ball head, 4 slit perforations on shaft, tapered to knob end
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Quileute
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Washington
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 33.4 x 9.3 x 9 cm (13 1/8 x 3 11/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 05-7-10/65618
Provenance
Collector Grace A. Nicholson (?)
Donor Mr. Lewis Hobart Farlow (1905)

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