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Slash and thrust weapon
The handle end of this short whale bone club is decorated with a fine abstract carving. Short clubs were both effective weapons and important status symbols of high-ranking men. Text: Ulrich Menter
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Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
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Cultural attribution
Māori
Object type
Hieb- und Stoßwaffe
Dimensions
Length: 33.9 cm
Width: 13 cm
Depth: 2.5 cm
Width: 13 cm
Depth: 2.5 cm
Material/Technique
Sperm whale bone, Leather [strap], Paper
carved
carved
Current location
Linden-Museum
Stuttgart
Inventory number
117327
Provenance and sources
Provenance
The object
traces back to the collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin and came
to the Linden-Museum Stuttgart in 1939 through an object exchange with
Arthur Speyer. The earlier history of the object is not yet known for
certain. Text: Ulrich Menter
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