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Object Number 90-18-70/50652
Display Title Carved sacred war club
Descriptions
Inventory Description Club, carved wood, rounded end, tapering shaft, intricate zigzag carving
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Samoa
Oceania / Tonga
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 108.4 x 5.8 x 5.8 cm (42 11/16 x 2 5/16 x 2 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 50652
Provenance
Collector Unknown (before 1832)
Donor Mrs. Lucy Nourse (1890)

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