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Object Number 99-12-70/53440
Display Title Club
Descriptions
Inventory Description Club, flat blade head, bone inlay, cylindrical shaft, elaborate chip carving
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji?
Dimensions Overall: 107.6 x 13.8 x 3.4 cm (42 3/8 x 5 7/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53440
Credit Line Gift of the Heirs of David Kimball, 1899
Provenance
Provenance Boston Museum
Donor David P. Kimball
Donor L. Cushing Kimball
Donor Augusta K. Horton

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