- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Straight cylindrical wooden club with a fluted surface, swelling at the head, with both ends pointed. The grip above the butt is roughly carved. The distal tip of the club is damaged. [JC [OPS Move] 14/10/2016]
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1930
- Date collected
- By 1930
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 1930
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Process Grooved, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 37 mm, Length: max 640 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1930.78.4.3
- Research and responses
Related Documents File [James Thomas Hooper, Catalogue of Ethnographical Material] - The museum has a photocopy of Hooper's accession and dispersal records, which are bound as two volumes and kept in a separate box file. Items are arranged according to Hooper's own numbering system [RTS 21/11/2003].
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