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Object Number 96-25-70/49430A
Display Title Club
Descriptions
Object Description Club
Inventory Description Club, paddle shaped, curvilinear white pigmented designs, knobbed end, fiber
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1896
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Papua New Guinea / <State> / Trobriand
Additional Geographic Terms Trobriand Islands
Dimensions Overall: 36 × 4 × 1 1/4 in. (36 × 4 × 1 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 49430A
Provenance
Collector Alexander Agassiz (1896)
Donor Alexander Agassiz (1896)

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