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Carved wooden war club - end is flat and flared with point sticking +
Carved wooden war club - end is flat and flared with point sticking +
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
Materials Wood, Obsidian, Vegetable fiber, Resin, Seed, Pigment
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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