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Object Number 99-12-70/53462
Display Title Club
Descriptions
Inventory Description Club, carved wood, flaring and spurred head, ridged notched side, curved
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 88.5 x 13.4 x 7.2 cm (34 13/16 x 5 1/4 x 2 13/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53462
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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