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Club

Object Number:2003-32-151
Current Location: Collections Storage
Provenience: New Hebrides (uncertain)
Section:Oceanian
Materials:Wood
Length: 126 cm
Width: 10.1 cm
Credit Line:Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number:1995.X.16616 - Other Number

Description

Long wooden club with paddle-shaped blade, conical point at bottom. Club type from Malekula (Speiser Pl. 57, No. 14). Exhibited at l'Exposition universelle de Paris 1900.

Bibliography:

[Book] Speiser, Felix. 1990. Ethnology of Vanuatu: An early twentieth century study.. Crawford House Press. Type Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Pl. 57 (No. 14)View Objects related to this Type Citation

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