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Round club widening upwards. At the bottom, an arched piece is carved out, drilled through, and a rope threaded through it. Two light grains all around. Above are 4 braided bands, two of which are connected by knots. The upper end is hollowed out. The rim is studded with a piece of iron fastened by 5 strips of nails. Below the rim is another hole. Approximately to the bottom of the rim, the club is resharpened to the inside. How did the object come to the Übersee-Museum? The collection was purchased by the museum from Otto Tetens in 1907. Tetens was director of the Samoa Observatory of the Royal Society of Sciences in Göttingen in the colony of German Samoa from 1902 to 1905. Nothing is yet known about the exact circumstances of Tetens' acquisition on site.
