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club

A club consisting of a wooden stick with a round stone attached to one end with putty. On both sides of the stone, cowrie shells are embedded in the putty around the stick. The other end consists of a tapered, flat handle carved into the stick.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
clubs (weapons)
Dimensions
General: 7.4 × 114.3 cm
Material/Technique
Stone; wood; parinarium putty; cowrie shell carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D13642
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D13642

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1900-1900
    where
    East New Britain
  • Change of physical control
    when
    not documented
    who
    Nauer, Karl - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED
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