- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Wooden club with a cylindrical staff and a wide rounded end, slightly lenticular. [NC 19/5/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Queensland Torres Strait Islands
- Person
- Field collector Alfred Cort Haddon
- Field collector Cambridge Torres Straits Expedition
- PRM source Alfred Cort Haddon
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1888
- Date collected
- ?1888
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1889
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant
- Dimensions
- Length: max 395 mm, Diameter: max 130 mm club head
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1889.34.69
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