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Object Number 99-12-70/53400
Display Title Staff used as a club, or on board a canoe
Descriptions
Inventory Description Staff, carved wood, 1 end bulbed and pointed, other end pointed, fiber wrap
Classification
  • Staff
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / New Zealand / <State> / Niue
Additional Geographic Terms Cook Islands
Materials Wood, Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 216.3 x 3.8 x 3.8 cm (85 3/16 x 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53400
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton
Donor L. Cushing Kimball

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