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Object Number 99-12-70/53449
Display Title Club
Descriptions
Inventory Description Club, carved wood, incised handle, fiber at end, flared head, square tip, ridged
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Tuvalu / <State> / Rotumah Island
Additional Geographic Terms Ellis Group
Materials Wood, Fiber
Dimensions Overall: 128.3 x 11.5 x 3.1 cm (50 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53449
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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