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Object Number 99-12-70/53450
Display Title Club
Descriptions
Inventory Description Club, carved wood, handle, braided 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: 127 x 11.1 x 3.4 cm (50 x 4 3/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53450
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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