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Object Number 96-25-70/49430.2
Display Title Club
Descriptions
Object Description Clubs
Inventory Description Club, paddle shape, curvilinear designs on one side, white pigment
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1896
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea
Materials Wood, Pigment
Dimensions Overall: 28 1/2 × 2 1/2 × 1/2 in. (28 1/2 × 2 1/2 × 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 49430.2; 98-45 (in pencil)
Credit Line Gift of Alexander Agassiz, 1896
Provenance
Collector Alexander Agassiz (1896)
Donor Alexander Agassiz (1896)

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