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Object Number 99-12-70/53461
Display Title Club
Descriptions
Inventory Description Club, carved wood, ridged, tapering, paddle-like head, intricate zigzag carving
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 107.9 x 13.6 x 4.4 cm (42 1/2 x 5 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 99-12-70/53461
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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