- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Club, stone head missing. [BS [OPS Move] 12/08/2016]
- Long description
- Club, stone head missing. The shaft is broadly cylindrical with natural knots in the wood producing kinks and knobs along its length. The distal end is more regularly carved into a narrowed cylinder for the stone head to attach to. [BS [OPS Move] 12/08/2016]
- Geographical reference
- Central Province Kairuku Hiri District Yule Island
- Cultural groups
- Mekeo
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1908
- Date collected
- 1908
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1939
- Materials and processes
- Material Stone, Material Wood Plant, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 25 mm shaft only, Length: max 905 mm shaft only
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1939.6.5
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