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Object Number 67-10-70/307
Display Title Club, "pillow", combined club and headrest
Descriptions
Inventory Description Club, carved wood, peaked one side, tapered to notched squared head
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji?
Oceania / Tonga?
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 80 x 10.5 x 2.8 cm (31 1/2 x 4 1/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 307
Credit Line Gift of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1867
Provenance
Donor Massachusetts Historical Society (1867)

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