- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Long-handled club with perforated, 'pineapple' stone head. [BS [OPS Move] 02/08/2016]
- Long description
- Long-handled club with perforated, 'pineapple' stone head. The head is carved with three rows of pointed knobs on a cylindrical body. The wooden shaft tapers to a point and is elaborately bound with woven plant fibre above and below the stone head as well as at the butt of wooden shaft. A band of feathers is bound around the mid section of the wooden shaft. [BS [OPS Move] 02/08/2016]
- Cultural groups
- Binandere
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1927
- Date collected
- By 1927
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1927
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone, Material Plant Fibre, Material Bird Feather, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Woven, Process Bound
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 90 mm, Length: max 950 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1927.4.5
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