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Object Number 99-12-70/53476
Display Title Club
Descriptions
Inventory Description Carved wooden club, narrow, pointed end, ridged, finial at other end
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Date before 1899
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Solomon islands
Materials Wood
Dimensions Overall: 128 x 6 x 2.5 cm (50 3/8 x 2 3/8 x 1 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 53476
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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