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Club with twine wound handle
Club with twine wound handle
Object Number 14-29-70/85724
Display Title Club with twine wound handle
Descriptions
Inventory Description Wooden club, woven fiber handle (fiber breaking), curved, forked head
Classification
  • Club
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Oceania / Fiji
Materials Wood, Vegetable fiber
Dimensions Overall: 91 x 18 x 4.5 cm (35 13/16 x 7 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 85724 / Woodworth / Hatoi / Nov. 30, 1897
Provenance
Collector Dr. William McMichael Woodworth
Donor Museum of Comparative Zoology (1914)

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