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Object Number
40-63-70/1974
Display Title
Carved wooden war club - end is flat and flared with point sticking +
Descriptions
Indigenous Term
sali
Object Description
Carved wooden war club - end is flat and flared with point sticking +
Inventory Description
Spear, chipped obsidian blade, fiber wrapped and pigmented haft, seed inlay
Classification
- Spear
Department
Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania
/
Fiji
Dimensions
Overall: 145 x 5.8 x 3.3 cm (57 1/16 x 2 5/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
40-63-70/1974
Provenance
Owner
Mr. C. B. Butterfield Jr.
Previous owner
Previously owned by
Old State House Museum
(ca. 1865)
Donor
Donated by
Mr. C. B. Butterfield Jr.
(1940)
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