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Object Number 36-45-70/334
Display Title Wooden war club
Descriptions
Inventory Description Wooden club, cylindrical, beaked and flared head, braided fiber wrap
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1909
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Dimensions Overall: 88.4 x 23.8 x 7.4 cm (34 13/16 x 9 3/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 36-45-70/334 / #####
Provenance
Collector Dr. Roland Burrage Dixon (1909)
Donor Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer

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