Club or paddle with long rounded handle that flattens out into a straight edged top end, with an enlongated spatula form. [LKG 01/07/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Club or paddle with long rounded handle that flattens out into a straight edged top end, with an enlongated spatula form. [LKG 01/07/2010]
Geographical reference: French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France)
Oceania > Polynesia > French Polynesia (Overseas Collectivity of France); Society Islands Tahiti
Person: Field collector Frederick William Beechey; Field collector HMS Blossom; PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Date / Period: Date made: On or before 1828
Date collected: Between 18 March and 26 April 1826
Acquisition information: Transferred: 13/02/1886
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
Dimensions: Width: max 73 mm, Depth: max 28 mm, Length: max 2470 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.1.1473 Other numbers: 144
Research and responses: This object does not appear in the list of Beechey objects in Collectors Miscellaneous XI 71 - 75 [AP 20/7/99]