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Small hand club shape. The club is black, rough and untreated with numerous deep holes. The handle has a triangular tip at the bottom, through which a twisted thread has been pulled. The stem is round with a uniform diameter. The transition to the spherical attachment is formed by a 4 flat piece in the dimensions of the stem. The top has the shape of a sphere, deep incisions running lengthwise over the whole sphere. Each prong forms a narrow surface towards the outside. From there, the sides slope outward so that the individual prongs are connected to each other on 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.

Data Provider
Übersee-Museum Bremen

Cataloguing data

Object type
clubs (weapons)
Dimensions
General: 20 × 4 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
carved
Current location
Übersee-Museum Bremen
Inventory number
D05638
Other number(s)
http://coll.uebersee-museum.de/v/D05638

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1800-1905
    where
    Savai'i
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Ethnographic collections

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Legal status metadata
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