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Object Number 99-12-70/53470
Display Title Club
Descriptions
Inventory Description Club, carved wood, eccentric head, cylindrical shaft, end wrapped with hair
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Vanuatu
Additional Geographic Terms Malakula, central Pentecost, New Hebrides?
Dimensions Overall: 104.2 x 12.6 x 6.7 cm (41 x 4 15/16 x 2 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53470
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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