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Club <weapon>

This club from the Gazelle Peninsula was used as a weapon. According to descriptions of the European planter Richard Parkinson from 1906, the victorious warrior is said to have torn off the plumage with his teeth. Even by this time the richly decorated weapons had become rare and were only used as prestige objects.

Data Provider
Museen Freiburg Show original at data provider

Cataloguing data

Object type
Mallet
Dimensions
Length: 1350.0 mm
Width: 120.0 mm
Material/Technique
Bird feather, Wood
Current location
Museum Natur und Mensch
Inventory number
II/1146

Provenance and sources

  • Change of legal title:
    Purchase
    when
    22.06.1901
  • Change of physical control or legal title
    where
    New Britain (formerly New Pomerania) (location/origin)
    Oceania (location/origin)
    Melanesia (location/origin)
    Gazelle peninsula (location/origin)
    who
    Speyer, Arthur - Collectors
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Oceania

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